title: Jihadi: A Love Story
author:  Yusuf Toropov 
description: <div><B>Yusuf Toropov</B> is an American Muslim writer. He&rsquo;s the author or co-author of a number of nonfiction books, including <I>Shakespeare for Beginners</I>. His full-length play <I>An Undivided Heart</I> was selected for a workshop production at the National Playwrights Conference, and his one-act <I>The Job Search</I> was produced off-Broadway.<I> Jihadi: A Love Story</I>, which reached the quarter-finals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, is his first novel. Yusuf currently lives in Ireland, and often returns to his hometown of Portland, Oregon.</div>
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  # **Jihadi**
  
  
  A Love Story
  
  
  YUSUF TOROPOV
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # [**From the Desk of R.L. Firestone**](9781910633328_tableofcontents.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  This is no love story, though the late author would have had it so. A sad
  tale, a tale of treason, _Jihadi_ , an encrypted memoir posing as a novel, is
  the work of the terrorist Ali Liddell, upon whom the justice of God descended
  on July 3, 2006. This date marked both his forty-fifth birthday and the
  fourteenth anniversary of the star-cursed day that I recommended we hire him.
  I here seek formal immunity against prosecution for his death.
  
  
  Although my detractors never fail to note that the terrorist’s last name
  rhymes with ‘riddle’, the case against him could not be clearer cut. Much has
  been made of the imagined legal and moral dilemmas presented by Liddell’s
  American citizenship. Yet the three facts driving his case remai