The murder of a leader of the Palestinian Martyrs Brigade leads to the arrest of George Saba, a Palestinian Christian accused of collaborating with the Israelis. Omar Yussef, a modest history teacher at a United Nations school in the West Bank, is impelled to investigate the murder to exonerate his former pupil. As he struggles to save George, Omar Yussef is drawn into a complex plot where it is impossible to tell friend from enemy.
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The murder of a leader of the Palestinian Martyrs Brigade leads to the arrest of George Saba, a Palestinian Christian accused of collaborating with the Israelis. Omar Yussef, a modest history teacher at a United Nations school in the West Bank, is impelled to investigate the murder to exonerate his former pupil. As he struggles to save George, Omar Yussef is drawn into a complex plot where it is impossible to tell friend from enemy.
I began my series of Palestinian crime novels in Bethlehem, because it's the Palestinian town we think we know best. Many of us grow up singing songs about the place at Christmas. But the last 2,000 years in the town's history are a blank. I wanted to confront the stereotypes we get from the media about Palestinians. What better place to start than the famous town we don't know as well as we believe we do.