G.T. Reoch

When a New York Times reporter receives an unmarked envelope promising to expose a suppressed international crisis involving Al Qaeda, a U.S. president, and Hollywood's biggest reality show, he's skeptical—until the source logs into a secure channel and begins to speak.

At the height of its fame, the hit series Marooned is targeted by a terrorist cell led by Ja'far Bahili al-Hasan—a former child witness to unspeakable brutality, now a hardened operative carrying out the final directive of a slain jihadist leader. His target: the cast and crew of the show, and the millions watching from home.

As filming wraps on the remote island set, the remaining contestants are ambushed under cover of night and taken to an abandoned military bunker deep in the Colombian jungle. There, the rules of the game are rewritten. Cameras still roll—but this time, the stakes are survival, and the audience is no longer in control.

Gripping, cinematic, and disturbingly plausible, Scripted in Al Qaeda Ink pulls back the curtain on a world where entertainment, extremism, and politics collide—and the most dangerous weapon is the illusion of control.