This compelling novel of corruption, terrorism, and rebellion is the first to reveal the history of oppression leading up to the Arab Spring. It is a tale fraught with intrigue and duplicity that resonates today.

Thoroughly engrossing, beautifully written, and with a memorable cast of characters, The Secret and The Hidden is the first of a two-volume work entitled Ibrahim's Eyes that immerses us in the crosscurrents of revolution extending across two generations in a fictional country in French North Africa.

In The Secret and The Hidden we discover why Samiel, a legend in his own time once revered for liberating his country from colonial oppression, is being prosecuted in the World Court for crimes against humanity only now, twenty-five years after the fact.

Winner of the Dana Award for Short Fiction, prizewinner of the 2023 Hudson River Writers' Guild/Annual International Poetry Contest, and author of published fiction and nonfiction, including The Secret and The Hidden (a novel about revolution in a fictional country in Post-Colonial North Africa), Hunger's Season (a novel about race relations in the American South in the 1950s), and Blues By the Numbers...And Other Numbers (a collection of stories and poems concerning race relations, early jazz musicians and other subjects.) Mr. Wilson is a free-lance writer and past senior editor at McGraw-Hill.