Aisha

The Search for Yaser Abdel Said, Vol. 1

Fiction - Thriller - General
192 Pages
Reviewed on 12/12/2012
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Author Biography

Denis Schulz is a former Army platoon sergeant with a degree in history from Michigan State University. He has authored more than a thousand Internet articles. He has written for FaithFreedom International, Islam Watch, the Autonomist, One Jerusalem, the Oconoclast and various blogs and websites.

    Book Review

Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite

Dallas, Texas cab driver Yaser Abdel Said has murdered his daughters Sarah and Amina, in what some people say was an "honor killing". Then Said disappears. The boys at Joe's Bar and Grill and Gun Club in Dallas pass the plate around and collect money to hire a private investigator to find Yaser Abdel Said. They hire Bernard Piffy, who comes from what he calls the real Mayberry County, to be their investigator. He collects his money and heads to Birmingham, England, followed by Mohammad Atta and Hani Hanjour, well-known 9/11 culprits who always smell of cordite and phosgene. Bernard seeks out an Islamic poet, a woman, from centuries long ago, to help him find the elusive Yaser Abdel Said. The search continues as Bernard and Asma also seek out the Prophet's toe nail clippings. To Bernard's delight, he meets nice young girl Aisha and teaches her to sing "The Mocking Bird Song". He also gains a delightfully loyal little chocolate terrier before he is thrown into prison for (1) throwing his shoe at Riyadh ul-Haq (2)breaking into the Archbishop of Canterbury's office and stealing his personal papers and (3)assaulting Abu Hamza al-Masri in the prison library. What on earth is going on and will Bernard find Yaser Abdel Said?

Author Denis Schulz has written a humorous and delightfully off-beat story in "Aisha: The Search for Yaser Abdel Said, Vo.1". Bernard Piffy is not your typical private investigator as he calls upon Rooster Cogburn, talks of Sabrina Duncan from the old "Charlie's Angels" and makes references to Plains, Georgia. All the characters, major and minor, are treated with less than total reverence, but in this story, that's just fine. "Aisha" is a story for readers who know how to smile at people's foibles!

Maria Beltran

"Aisha" by Denis W. Schulz is a detective story like no other. Set in London, it chronicles the adventures of Bernard Piffy, a private detective hired by the regulars at Joe’s Bar and Grille and Gun Club in Dallas. His mission is to locate Yaser Abdel Said, a suspect in the killing of his own daughters in a fit of Islamic rage. Piffy is a veteran of the elite Marine Corps. He went to Dallas and met Ka'b bin al-Ashraf who promised him that he could take him to the soul of Yaser Abdel Said. Ka'b has been dead for 1,400 years, and he sends Piffy to Asma bint Marwan, described as a poet and the Shakespeare of the 7th Century, who can transform herself into a cute little girl, a hag and a sexy bomb shell, among others. The story brings us to Birmingham Central Mosque in England, to Abu Hamza al-Masri and to Archbishop Rowan Williams. Turning hilarious and mystical, the adventures of Piffy continues when he meets Inspector Jean-Jacques Rousseau, assorted jinns, jihadists, monsters and leprechauns. Finally, he gets to meet Aisha, a ten-year-old Muslim girl who is supposedly the sweetest little girl who ever lived in this world. But Piffy's adventure is just getting started.

"Aisha, The Search For Yasel Abdul Said" is a parody that mocks not only the Islamic extremists but our society as a whole. Denis W. Schulz demonstrates talent for sarcasm, irony and imagination in his writing. The plot, however, can be a bit confusing. From the seemingly simple job of finding Yael Abdel Said, Bernard Piffy goes into a series of adventures that takes him everywhere.

However, I was definitely entertained by this book. The cast of characters are so colorful and interesting and I presume that they are also meant to be sarcastic commentaries of the personalities that make up our society in the past as well as today. Sometimes redundant, the story still managed to entertain and amuse me. As parodies go, this is certainly a book that has to be read twice in order to get to the bottom of things.