2024-04-09 Last Testament (2007) by Sam Bourne, about Israel and Palestine

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Apr 092024
 

I recently read this novel.  It is obvious that the author “knows” the Middle East.

And how things work.

Last Testament (2007) by Sam Bourne 
Jonathan Saul Freedland is a British journalist who writes a weekly column for the Guardian. He presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series The Long View. Freedland also writes thrillers, mainly under the pseudonym Sam Bourne.    The Last Testament:
Maggie Costello is a “closer,” an expert brought into negotiations when all other options have failed. Now in Jerusalem, she mediates peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, which have broken down after two high-profile deaths. Hawkish Zionist Shimon Guttman was gunned down by bodyguards who believed he was about to assassinate the Israeli prime minister. “This will change everything,” Guttman had cryptically warned the prime minister before he was killed. Palestinian Ahmed Nour, a respected archaeologist, has also been killed on suspicion of being a collaborator. When Maggie discovers that the two men were secret colleagues, she is plunged into a mystery rooted in a last, unsolved riddle of the Bible. It all leads back to an ancient clay tablet looted from Baghdad’s Museum of Antiquities and a secret that could end a war―or spark a new one.

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