from Cairo to London, war correspondent Daniel marosh battles insomnia and hallucinations while fleeing the emotional ravages of conflict and deceit through a dizzying blend of xanax, opium, alcohol and paid sex. told from the perspective of cairo-based European correspondent Daniel marosh, the most beautiful night of the soul takes us into the disorienting days and disquieting nights of a man who seeks the truth in the midst of war and chaos, even as he fights his own demons. In ‘the trial’, marosh confronts hard truths when a Kurdish commander in Iraq invites him to view the interrogation of an ISIS suspect; in ‘winter in the promised land’, he spends Christmas in Jerusalem with an Israeli friend, a special forces soldier who ensures his kids a happy holiday thanks to a raid in the Gaza strip. In ‘banana split’, marosh and an American journalist colleague pass a dizzying night with a prostitute in Cairo; in ‘son of a dog’, he spends days in the heart of cairo’s city of the dead in a desperate search for opium, and forms an unlikely bond with a street kid.Journalism meets storytelling in this unputdownable collection of linked stories and becomes compelling, thrilling literature..