The Butcher's Theater: A Novel

ISBN: 0345540182

Author: Kellerman, Jonathan

Condition: New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThey call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butchers theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless killer performs his violent specialty. The first to die brutally is a girl. She is drained of blood, then carefully bathed and shrouded in white. Precisely one week later, a second victim is found.Crisp . . . suspenseful . . . intense.-The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the sacred Wailing Wall to monasteries where dark secrets are cloistered, from black-clad Bedouin enclaves to labyrinthine midnight alleys, veteran police inspector Daniel Sharavi and his crack team plunge deep into a city simmering with religious and political passions to hunt for a murderer whose insatiable taste for bloodshed could destroy the delicate balance on which Jerusalems very survival depends.