Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1998. A densely plotted political and metaphysical thriller set in contemporary Jerusalem, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Stone tackles the religious hatreds, political intrigues and spiritual aspirations and malaise that intersect in one of the most historically significant, and volatile, places on earth. In The New York Times Book Review, author Daphne Merkin commented that nothing she had read prior to going to Jerusalem, with the possible exception of Stone's Damascus Gate, had prepared her for "the country's unlikely mixture of contemporary folly and biblical mystery." Signed by the author. Mild mottling to spine cloth; else fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. From the author's library. [#029727] SOLD