The Eleventh Week: A Literary Thriller – Paperback

Karim Haddad is a Dubai novelist, forty-four years old, with a tumor in his throat and a diagnosis nobody will say out loud. When the polished Al Noor Oncology Centre offers him a “new protocol” (fifteen thousand dirhams, non-refundable after commencement), he pays it. Two days later, the patient who sat beside him in the waiting room dies in his sleep, a doctor’s signature already on his death certificate.

Then Karim learns the date of his own death. It’s next Thursday.

For two years he has been writing a novel about a killer nobody catches. Now he is inside one. A trail of quiet home deaths, a Sharjah sance where the dead seem to know too much, and a soft-spoken driver with a burned hand lead him to midnight in a stranger’s bedroom, where he does something he can never take back.

His wife Leila trusts numbers more than people. She has noticed the payments, the lies, the missing hours. If Karim won’t tell her the truth, she will add it up herself.