They 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 fifteen-year-old girl. She is drained of blood, then carefully bathed and shrouded in white. Precisely one week later, a second victim is found. From the sacred Wailing Wall to the 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 whos insatiable taste for young women could destroy the delicate balance on which Jerusalems very survival depends. A brilliant novel by a master of the genre, a vivid look at the tortured complexities of a psychopaths mind, a rich evocation of a city steeped in history -- this, and more, is The Butchers Theater.
