The book ' Passion and Pathos' is indubitably a fiction encompassing features of journey of a Bangladeshi in varied settings of and through Pakistan and Afghanistan in quest to be an al-Qaeda Mujahedeen. The character, Areem, was from a well to do family of Dhaka with proven academic excellence. His intellectual mindset was always agitated because of paradoxical enigma inexplicably persistent in his life. To escape from unfriendly family locale, to...