Fic­tion

Father, Son, Stone

  • From the Publisher
May 19, 2015

Father, Son, Stone blends his­to­ry and mys­tery to reveal the secret of the most con­tro­ver­sial reli­gious site in Jerusalem — known to Jews as the Tem­ple Mount and to Mus­lims as the Noble Sanc­tu­ary. In the year 2035, a grand­fa­ther and his grand­son enter the Dome of the Rock on the Tem­ple Mount. The grand­fa­ther, speak­ing Ara­bic, tells his grand­son why Jews no longer pray at the West­ern Wall. The grand­fa­ther’s sto­ry begins in 1967 dur­ing the Six-Day War, with three Israeli para­troop­ers fight­ing in the bat­tle for Jerusalem. The tale con­tin­ues fifty years lat­er, in 2017, after a cat­a­stroph­ic event near the Tem­ple Mount brings togeth­er the same three men — now the Prime Min­is­ter of Israel, a Jus­tice of the Supreme Court of Israel, and a Mossad agent. As the cri­sis unfolds, the three seek to dis­cov­er the rea­son behind mys­te­ri­ous events that occurred on the Tem­ple Mount dur­ing the Six-Day War. The truth, when final­ly revealed, changes Jerusalem and the peo­ple who live there forever.

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