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Last Secret of the Temple - Paul Sussman

 

Description: ISBN 0553814052 / Author: Paul Sussman / Genre: Fiction / When the body of an aged hotel owner is discovered amidst the ruins of a ... more
Last Secret of the Temple - Paul Sussman ... rarely-visited archaeological site by the Nile, Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police expects it to be an open-and-shut case. But, the more he finds out about the dead man, the uneasier he becomes. It reminds him of an earlier death - the brutal murder of an Israeli woman for which he always suspected they'd convicted the wrong man. What begins as a routine investigation rapidly turns out to be anything but...Forced into an uneasy alliance with a hard-drinking Jerusalem detective and a campaigning Palestinian journalist, Khalifa enters a murky, murderous world of greed, duplicity, intrigue and revenge as he goes in search of an elusive 2000 year-old mystery with the power, if it fell into the wrong hands, to plunge the Middle East into all-out war...Spanning the millennia - from ancient Jerusalem and the Crusades to the Holocaust and the modern-day no-man's landof the Gaza strip, from Cathar heretics to coded medieval manuscripts and long-lost Nazi treasure - The Last Secret of the Temple is a thrilling, rollercoaster adventure.

Newest Review: ... 15 year old murder. Secondly there is Arieh Ben-Roi an Israeli police officer who is battling his inner demons after his ... more

 ... fiancée is blown up by a suicide bomber. Ben-Roi must work with Khalifa on the Jewish part of the case. Finally we have Layla al-Madani, a Palestinian journalist who has just received a mysterious letter that points towards an artefact that is 2000 years old and could bring about the downfall of the Israeli State. How are these three cases connected and can these natural enemies work together to discover the secret that has remained hidden for centuries? There are a lot of things with this book that leave a bad taste...more

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Premium Review Last Secret of the Temple - Paul Sussman: A Secret Shame (867 words)
by samueltyler - written on 23.07.07 (Very useful, 86 readings)
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A great man once asked, “War – what is it good for?” People will jump to the quick conclusion that the answer is nothing (absolutely nothing huh). However, without war economies would falter (see USA) and inventions would flounder (see Microwave Ovens). The fact is that in today’s society war is a way of making money. One conflict that has been ongoing since WW2 is between Israel and Palestine. These two peoples are not officially at war, yet their dealings with one another have left 1000s dead. The facts are that the Middle East is a powder keg and any author looking to set a book in the region must be sensitive to the politics. Therefore, if you were going to ...

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Premium Review Stand down, Dan Brown (887 words)
by steerpyke - written on 09.10.06 (Very useful, 230 readings)
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It was, I expect, inevitable that the Da Vinci Code would turn into a point of reference for a certain type of book, rightly or wrongly. In the same way that when a band becomes big, every other record label wants to have their version of that act, publishing houses are also looking for their version of Dan Browns hit novel. It could even be that the lasting legacy of that controversial book was not the questions it made us ask but the doors it opened for other, better, books to get the recognition they deserve and to get into the high street markets so much more easily. The blurb on the cover of Paul Sussmans hit book states "the intelligent readers answer to The ...

 
 
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