The Last Man
A Novel
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- $20.99
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
A woman goes missing, sending a young nuclear engineer on a quest deep into the Judean desert to the legendary fortress of Masada, where secrets are concealed
When a young Israeli woman suddenly goes missing, her boyfriend, an American nuclear engineer, suspects her disappearance is connected to her tantalizing theory about the haunting fortress of Masada. He decides to travel to Herod's 2000 year old mountain fortress to see if her theory was right. There, he makes a discovery so astonishing that forces from the dark side of Israeli intelligence begin to converge on him to deflect his pursuit of the truth by any means necessary. With the aid of a beautiful Israeli archaeologist, he struggles to bring to light the treasures he believes are concealed in the mountain, unaware that there is a dangerous contemporary secret at stake.
P.T. Deutermann's fifteenth novel, The Last Man, brings all the excitement and pulse-thumping action his fans have come to expect.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Deutermann (The Firefly) ventures into the religious artifact genre with this slow-moving, mildly suspenseful stand-alone rooted in Israel's Masada story. In 73 C.E., the Roman legions lay siege to the fortress of Masada, where the last of the Zealots in the Jewish revolt against Rome are holed up. The 960 men, women, and children in the fortress plan to die by their own hands rather than allow the Romans to kill them. After all are dead, the "Last Man," Judah Sicarius, hides a great treasure and then kills himself. In the present day, American David Hall comes to Masada on a secret mission to find that treasure. Various side plots, including one involving an antinuclear group, complicate Hall's quest. The author tries the reader's patience by taking too long to get to the good stuff, i.e., the treasure, and the solution to all the additional mysteries and a final revelation do little to add heat.
