Alamut

Written on the eve of World War II partly as a political allegory of the fascism that was engulfing Europe, "Alamut" reaches a thousand years into the past to tell a story that is as relevant to today's post-September 11 America as it was to Hitler and Mussolini's Europe. But much more than a prophetic treatise or political allegory on terrorism, "Alamut" is a gripping story of one man's unmanacled drive to play God and the human price paid by the innocent to fuel that drive.