by Brad Taylor
Part of Pike Logan, book 11.5
First published 2017
Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill travel to Jerusalem's Old City for a joyful occasion. Their friends Aaron and Shoshana, former Mossad operatives, are marrying at the Western Wall of the Temple Mount. The ancient site represents Judaism's holiest ground and Islam's third most sacred location. As the couple celebrates, Palestinian terrorists prepare to strike innocent tourists. They want to provoke the Arab world into forcing Israel's withdrawal from the holy site. An infiltrator manipulates the terrorist cell, pursuing his own agenda to strip Arab control of the Temple Mount. Neither the terrorists nor the infiltrator grasps the other's complete strategy. The planned attack exceeds what the infiltrator expects. Pike and Jennifer explore the historic streets with their Israeli friends, unaware that forces around them threaten to ignite total war along ancient religious fault lines.
Genres: historical-fiction, adventure, mystery, thriller, action, espionage
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Jerusalem, Old City, Temple Mount, Western Wall
Period: Contemporary
108 pages · Kindle Edition · Dutton
Content warnings: violence