Description
It begins when the strangely marked body of a young prostitute is found just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. A similarly disfigured corpse of an American nun turns up. Then an Arab boy. As the list of victims grows, their only apparent connection the bizarre markings on their bodies, it appears that Israel is facing its first serial murder case.
David Bar-Lev, chief of the Pattern Crimes Unit of the Jerusalem police, is not so sure. A tough yet sensitive investigator with a powerful intelligence and a querying mind, he begins searching for a pattern that will explain the apparently random killings.
At first the disorder is overwhelming, the case unfathomable. But then, as David probes deeper into this particular pattern of crime, he is not so sure he wants to understand it. Pieces emerge that suggest that this time the key may lie within his own life. During the course of his investigation he must uncover and confront many painful secrets:
โข The mysterious behavior of his father, Avraham, a retired psychoanalyst, The tragic suicide of his brother, Gideon, a talented fighter pilot;
โข The hidden past of his beautiful Russian lover, the cellist Anna;
โข The possibility of corruption within the Jerusalem police and the ultra secret General Security Services (Shin Bet).
ISBN:9780394558769
