In the tumultuous summer of 1974, the governments of Cyprus, Greece, and the United States all crumbled. In my multi-ethnic novel, Resistors, Iriana, a Cypriot woman assaulted and driven from her home by the Turkish invasion of her country, seeks retribution by joining covert raids against occupying forces. In her day job as a Cyprus Airways flight attendant, she helps Stephen, a Greek American security consultant, thwart a skyjacking mid flight. Soon after, they launch a passionate affair, interrupted by vengeful Palestinians who subject them to abductions, separations, and attempted murder. The action moves between the U.S. and the Eastern Mediterranean as Stephen’s actions increasingly raise the ire of the U.S. Department of State. Equally confounding is Faulkner’s “heart in conflict with itself”—Stephen is living in the States with Vicky, a dynamic woman with a dark side. . Resistors is upscale, mainstream fiction with a literary dimension—an intelligent, character driven narrative featuring conflicted people enmeshed in actual international events. The story plays across a canvas of scenarios that haunt America’s consciousness: small town America and big-city hotels; skyjackings and high seas hostage rescues; the Vietnam conflict and Hinckley’s attempted assassination of Reagan. Each player in this international intrigue is flawed, but strong. All refuse to be victims.Resistors targets an underserved market: sophisticated, internationally aware North American and European readers who enjoy resonant love stories with historical underpinnings embellished by credible action. U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East persists in world headlines, as do Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. As Resistors revisits 1974’s political intrigues, the intercontinental love triangle conundrum remains paramount. This book should attract readers in south-central Wisconsin; certainly in Cyprus and Greece; and inevitably in the UK, where thousands of philhellenes reside. The large fraternity of gun aficionados will admire the firearms elements in he book, and Vietnam vets will find chapters of interest to them. The story line also has something to offer readers with ties to the State Department, the CIA, and other branches of government service.