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Book Review of The Terrorists of Irustan

The Terrorists of Irustan
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Zahra Ibsada is a talented medicant on the planet Irustan, and sees much of the joy in the lives of the women she heals, and much of their pain. She sees a wife brutally beaten, a prostitute suffering at the hands of her employers . . . and her best friend, Kalen, a mother who is struggling to save her daughter from a cruel betrothal to a sadist who's already buried two other young wives.
Kalen begs Zahra for help, and although it goes against her medicant vows, Zahra reluctantly agrees. But this silent act of terrorism will have far reaching consequences--for herself, and for all the women of her planet.