Note! According to information found online, this novel starts out as a non-SF thriller, but incorporates SF elements later on.
Deep beneath the
ancient city of Jerusalem lies a secret that knows no bounds,
devastating enough to reach across time. History's greatest spy story
begins here. For a millennium, Jerusalem's Temple Mount has been at the
center of war and death. There's never been a time when blood wasn't
spilled upon this ancient, sacred site. Flash forward to present-day
Jerusalem, where 35-year-old Israeli counterterrorism agent Sam Deker
has just thwarted the most recent act of violence - an attempt by radical Palestinians to blow up the Dome of the Rock mosque and pin the blame
on right-wing Orthodox Jews. The threat, however, is a diversion. Deker
himself is the real target. He is captured and taken to neighboring
Jordan, where he is tortured because of his deep knowledge of Israel's
most closely guarded state secret.
Deker escapes with his comrade Uri Elezar, making it all the way to the border, only to be taken down
at the banks of the Jordan River. This time, however, Deker wakes up in
the middle of the ancient Israelite army on the eve of its historic
siege of Jericho. Deker doesn't know if he is dead, in some
torture-induced psychosis, or really back in time. But General Bin-Nun
has declared a colossal holy war, and he's sending Deker and Elezar on a dangerous mission to spy on the Promised Land in advance of the
invasion.
For Deker, it's his only hope to escape this genocidal
hell. Then he finds himself in the arms of a beautiful enemy named
Rahab, caught in a web of deadly betrayal, as he struggles to unlock the truth, secure Israel's future and his own, and save the twenty-first
century from The Promised War.
