The Monk of Mokha
ISBN : 9780241975367
Twenty-four-year-old Mokhtar has a dream : to quit his job as a doorman and get into the coffee business. This dream will lead him out of San Francisco and all the way back to his ancestral home : Yemen, the birthplace of coffee. But white he's organizing farmers, refining roasting techniques and collecting bean samples, civil war erupts across the country. The US Embassy closes its doors and Mokhtar is trapped behind enemy lines. Can he survive the Saudi bombs and make it back to America with his precious suitcase of coffee intact ?