Strange Fire: A Novel

"It could be Tom Clancy, minus the ham-fisted prose. Bukiet's prose is, in fact, so beautiful that it often overshadows the complicated plot of international intrigue. This, as it turns out, is extremely relevant to the central theme of the book, which is, among other things, how language and rhetoric act as a palliative to dim meaning....One does not see Israel through Nathan's eyes, but one feels it, smells it and hears its cadences. And for all of the suspense, the politics and the darkness lurking in the eaves, the wisdom of this novel comes from the fact that our (lame, blind, jaded, earless) guide is endowed with such wit, intelligence and humanity."Melvin Jules Bukiet is the author of 'Strange Fire: A Novel', published 2002 under ISBN 9780393323597 and ISBN 0393323595.