Taxi Driver

Abbas an Egyptian immigrant to the United States works as a taxi driver in New York City. Abbas is mildly retarded with stuttering problems such as repetitions of parts of words. He had a big physical body but was peaceful believing in live

and let live.




Abbas picked out a woman passenger who turned out to be a mob wife. She was escaping from her brutal husband who abused her sexually by raping and torturing her. She did not know where to go with her husband and his gang in pursuit. She took shelter in Abbas apartment where she found care and compassion. Abbas loved her without telling her.




Abbas was raised in upper Egypt where Killings are justified based on protecting honor, pride, or land. Only by killing a member of the murderer's family can a clan regain its honor and mourn its deceased. The husband, the chief of the crime organization, kidnaped his wife from Abbas's apartment and rained the place with bullets.




Abbas took revenge and fought back to save the woman he loved. How a peaceful retarded man could stand alone against a mafia with dozens of gangsters? The book explains that.