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Middle East - great reviews.
Good book but is missing dust cover.
Fascinating thriller set in Jerusalem at the turn of the millenium.
I ordered as a birthday gift to my husband. He hated it.
From the back cover" On the cusp of the millennium, Jerusalem has beome a battlegound in the race for redemption. American journalist Christopher Lucas is investigating religious fanatics when he discovers a plot to bomb the sacred Temple Mount....as Lucas follows his leads, he uncovers an attempt to seize political advantage that reveals suplicity and depravity on all sides of Jerusalems's sacred struggle."
(Back cover) On the cusp of the millennium, Jerusalem has become a battleground in the race for redemption. American journalist Christopher Lucas is investigating religious fanatics when he discovers a plot to bomb the sacred Temple Mount. A violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip, a race through riot-filled streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze--as Lucas follows his leads, he uncovers an attempt to seize political advantage that reveals duplicity and depravity on all sides of Jerusalem's sacred struggle.
Ambitious, passionate, darkly comic, "Damascus Gate" is not only Robert Stone's biggest and best novel to date, but a timely and brilliant story of belief, power, salvation, and apocalypse.
Ambitious, passionate, darkly comic, "Damascus Gate" is not only Robert Stone's biggest and best novel to date, but a timely and brilliant story of belief, power, salvation, and apocalypse.
