In August 2016 Hitesh Chaudhari saw devastating visuals of the Syrian civil war on CNN. Pictures of an injured child Omran Daqneesh, who was saved from a building which was bombarded in Aleppo, had stunned the entire world. This made Hitesh go on a quest for the real explanation for this brutal fight. The crisis of today had its roots in the past. The book attempts to discover how the present issue is linked to the past.

'In search of Syria' talks about avaricious foreign interventions, fierce power struggles, hastily executed coups, violent religious conflicts, nationalistic fights and the murder of humanity which occurred in Syria over a hundred years.

The book endeavours to delve deep into the historical backdrop of Syria, beginning from the Ottoman Empire. Then it proceeds to cover the country's history from the French mandate to the ongoing Syrian civil war. He addresses the root causes of major events which took place in Syria.