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Based on actual events a gripping novel of sex love history and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandatory Palestine by the acclaimed author of A Palestine Affair

The story of what is arguably Israels foundational murder triala tale of multiple identities and loyalties Joshua Cohen PulitzerPrizewinning author of The Netanyahus

Pleases on several levels as an adventure tale a starcrossed romance and a detailed period pieceThe Wall Street Journal

Its 1933 and Ivor Castle Oxfordeducated and Jewish arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff a leader of the Jewish community in Palestine whose efforts to get Jews out of Hitlers Germany and into Palestine may have been controversial enough to get him killed

While preparing for the trial Ivor an innocent to the politics of the case falls into bed and deeply in love with Tsiona a freespirited artist who happened to sketch the accused men in a Jerusalem caf on the night of the murder and may be a key witness As Ivor learns the hard way about the violence simmering just beneath the surface of British colonial rule Jonathan Wilson dazzles with his mastery of the sundrenched landscape and the subtleties of the warring agendas among the Jews Arabs and British

And as he travels between the crime scene in Tel Aviv and the mazelike streets of Jerusalem between the mounting mysteries surrounding this notorious case and clandestine lovemaking in Tsionas studio Ivor must discover where his heart lies whether he cares more for the law or the truth whether he is more an Englishman or a Jew and where and with whom he truly belongs