What a timely find! This book alternates between Egypt and Israel, with a critical side trip to Germany. I have traveled to Egypt and just returned from Israel so many of the sites referred to in the book were quite familiar to me and really made the book come alive. Investigating an old murder case, Inspector Yusuf Ezz el-Din Khalifa discovers that his love of history and antiquities is invaluable as he links a new death - that of Piet Jansen - to the cold case. It appears that Jansen had been on the trail of a holy relic from the temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD, just before its destruction at the hands of the Romans. Arieh is a washed-up detective in Israel and is called upon to follow various leads in the case in his homeland. He has taken to drink after the death of his recently proposed to fiancée. This book deals with so much history!...Israel's, Egypt's, Nazi Germany's, present day Palestinian/Israeli conflict...and is almost impossible to put down.
"Always go towards what you fear, and always seek what you don't understand, because that is how you grow and become a better person."
"God makes the world new every single day."
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