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Author's name: Muhammad Abdul-Al Khatib

In the early 19th century, in distant ports where trade mingled with shady dealings, and where dreams were measured by the weight of silk and the number of ships at anchor, Salem left the land of his birth, not to escape poverty, but in search of a wider horizon. Between a port under British control and foreign merchants obsessed with money, he learned that adventure was not merely travel, but a harsh test. How could a dead man's thumbprint alter the course of the largest commercial tender?

This is a novel about passion, and about the world of old, when it was redistributed in cafes and warehouses, before being decided on the battlefields. Between relics buried in a dark pit and the struggle of global corporations, a startling truth is revealed: some contracts are written in ink, some in blood... and the latter are the only ones that cannot be postponed.