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By James P. Gannon
Special to the Rappahannock News
The new book by Rappahannock author John W. Kiser has all the elements of a modern thriller: An exotic setting in an Arab nation, political turmoil, Islamic terrorists, kidnapping and the grisly murder of seven holy, innocent Christian Monks. That might sound like a story cranked out post-Sept. 11 by Hollywood scriptwriters, but it’s not.
Mr. , Kiser’s book, The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love and Terror in Algeria, is not fiction. It is the true account of the admirable lives and ghastly deaths of seven Christian men who were willing to die serving a Muslim community during a wave of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in the 1990s. Published in February by St. Martin’s Press, a big New York publisher, this heartwrenching tale is already receiving national attention,
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