In the smoldering ruins of Baghdad's Karrada marketplace, investigative journalist Zara Khoury stumbles upon a dying man's final secret—a memory card that unravels everything she thought she knew about the Middle East. Inside, "The Samson Protocol": a shadowy Israeli operation of false-flag bombings, cyber-warfare strikes, and political assassinations engineered to redraw borders in blood. Now the most hunted woman on Earth, Zara races from Beirut's besieged rooftops to Tehran's hidden labs, from London's covert intelligence corridors to Damascus safe houses. Along the way, she forges a fragile alliance with a disillusioned Mossad captain, an idealistic Iranian physicist, a battle-scarred Iraqi general, and a Palestinian operative torn between duty and conscience. Together, they must expose a conspiracy that could ignite World War III—or unite a fractured region for the first time in generations. Pulse-pounding and exhaustively researched, A Recipe for Ruin delivers relentless action, razor-sharp political intrigue, and profound moral dilemmas. When the final bombshell detonates at The Hague Tribunal, only the truth can avert humanity's descent into annihilation.