“In my first book a white convert and recruiter, Zinah al-Rashid, lands herself in prison after a failed terror attempt on the British PM. Readers wanted more of this strong character and so her deradicalisation is the starting point in this story,” explains the author, who was born in Kuwait and exposed to the clash between political and religious ideologies from a young age. “While the book may be fiction, it’s really a mirror to the issues we are facing in Britain 2020.”

Continuing, “Themes of the book include the public’s approach to former supporters of ISIS, the role in social media in facilitating blackmail and inciting murder, and political hypocrisy. Huw Thomas, the ex-Etonian Labour MP for Cherrywood faces deselection from a rapidly growing Islamic constituency unless he promotes extreme sharia principles.”

Reviews have been glowing. ‘Taut, hardboiled, detailed and funny. This is thriller excellence!’  says the convenor of the London Crime Writers Association Charlie Flowers, writer of the Riz Sabir Thrillers series.

Jared Cade, Murder on the London Unground adds: “The Killing of the Cherrywood MP is a tense, vividly-characterised political thriller, with finely nuanced dialogue, that starts off like a hissing, slow-burning fuse that leads inexorably to a climax of heart-pounding suspense.”

The Killing of the Cherrywood MP is a counter-terrorism thriller with action taking place in Syria, Turkey, Frankfurt, Mainz, St. Tropez, London and ‘Cherrywood” in the Midlands.

About the messages within the book Louise says, “Yes, there are thought challenges because it explores extremist thinking. But there are also car chases, casinos and helicopters.  And a love story.

Jared Cade sums this up with, “The book’s greatest strength, in the face of so much adversity, is to leave the reader feeling reassured by the essential goodness and humanity of mankind in rising above the evil perpetrated by lesser mortals.”       he Missing Activist political thriller ISBN 9780953852284