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Unlocking the Secrets of Moorish Spain

‘Highly entertaining. The writing is refined and elliptical, while Webster handles his material with huge assurance.’

The Guardian

Fast-paced and exciting… The intrinsic interest and, indeed, topicality of this book are obvious.’

Robert Irwin, The Independent

‘Mesmerising’

The Observer

As Islam and the West prepare to clash once again, Jason Webster embarks on a quest to discover Spain's hidden Moorish legacy and lift the lid on a country once forged by both Muslims and Christians. He meets Zine, a young illegal immigrant from Morocco, a twenty-first century Moor, lured over with the promise of a job but exploited as a slave labourer on a fruit farm. Jason's life is threatened as he investigates the agricultural gulag, Zine rescues him, and the unlikely pair of writer and desperado take off on a rollercoaster ride through Andalucía.

While Jason unveils the neglected Arab ancestry of modern Spain - apparent in its food, language, people and culture - Zine sets out on his own parallel quest, a one-man peace mission to resolve Muslim-Christian tensions by proving irresistible to Spanish señoritas.