From one of America's most compelling novelists comes the mesmerizing story of a trial lawyer who must defend the woman be loves against a charge of conspiring to assassinate the Prime Minister of Israel.
David Wolfe's life is approaching an exhilarating peak: he is a successful San Francisco lawyer, he is soon to be married and he is being groomed as a future Congressman. But when the phone rings and he hears the voice of Hana Arif--a Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret affair at law school--he begins a completely unexpected journey. The next day, while visiting San Francisco, the Prime Misnister of Israel is assassinated by a suicide bomber; soon Hana herself is accused of being the mastermind behind the muder. Now David faces an agonizing choice: will he, a Jew, represent Hana--who may well be guilty--or will he turn away the one woman he can never forget?
David's quest takes him to Israel and the West Bank, where, in a series of harrowing encounters, he learns that appearances are not at all what they seem.
" An astonishing book, a hugely entertaining human drama " --Bill Clinton--