[1] His latest novel is the international thriller China Strike, the second in a series about an agent with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
[2] His first book was a work of nonfiction, Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East in 2004 (Free Press), about Israeli and Palestinian societies.
"[4] Rees's writing has been compared with the work of Graham Greene, John le Carré, Georges Simenon and Henning Mankell.
Rees published a nonfiction account of Israeli and Palestinian society called Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East in 2004 (Free Press).
[citation needed] His sleuth Omar Yussef was called "Philip Marlowe fed on hummus" by one reviewer and "Yasser Arafat meets Miss Marple" by another.
Set in Nablus, it takes place against the backdrop of the city's ancient casbah and the small community of Samaritans still living on a hilltop overlooking the West Bank town.
Rees has written that this perspective was dictated by his discontent with news reporting of the conflict, which focused on stereotypes of Palestinians as either terrorists or victims.
Instead, Rees writes, the diversity of Palestinian society awakened him creatively and made him look at the Middle East from a different angle.
She uncovers a plot involving illegal Masonic meetings, espionage, and a secret hidden in her brother's last great opera The Magic Flute.