Will iconic images recorded in the grooves of an ancient vase unite the Holy Land or rip it further apart?

THE VASE

A novel by Mark M. DeRobertis

Muhsin Muhabi is a Palestinian potter, descended from a long line of potters. His business is run from the same shop owned by his ancestors since the day his forebears moved to Nazareth. The region's conflict saw the death of his oldest son, and rogue terrorists are in the process of recruiting his youngest in their plot to assassinate the Pope and Israeli prime minister.

Professor Hiram Weiss is an art historian at Nazareth’s Bethel University. He is also a Shin Bet operative on special assignment. With the help of fellow agent, Captain Benny Mathias, he plans to destroy the gang responsible for the death of his wife and only child. He puts a bomb in the ancient vase he takes on loan from Muhsin’s Pottery Shop.

Mary Levin, the charming assistant to the director of Shin Bet, has lost a husband and most of her extended family to recurring wars and never-ending terrorism. She dedicates her life to the preservation of Israel, but to whom will she dedicate her heart? The brilliant professor from Bethel University? Or the gallant captain who now leads Kidon?

Harvey Holmes, the Sherlock of Haunted Houses, is a Hollywood TV host whose reality show just flopped. When a Lebanese restaurant owner requests his ghost-hunting services, he believes the opportunity will resurrect his career. All he has to do is exorcise the ghosts that are haunting the restaurant. It happens to be located right across the street from Muhsin’s Pottery Shop.




Friday, May 25, 2012

Four Day Weekend

So it's Friday and the first day of a four day weekend. Well, for teachers it's really a three day weekend. I'm in the staff room right now waiting for the teacher's Inservice Meeting to begin. The other teachers are eating bagels provided by the PTA and chatting with each other. But I don't eat  bagels, and usually I don't chat. What I'm looking forward to is after this meeting to get back to KILLER EYES. I've made a lot of progress revising the prose of that story and making it better that I hope to make even more progress this weekend.

And as I've already mentioned, I expect the edits to arrive any day now for KILLER OF KILLERS. When they do arrive I will pounce on them and get them back to my editor pronto. And in the midst of that I am planning to get started with the third book in the series, tentatively entitled THE KILLERS GUILD. And that will be an entirely new story, breaking away from the story arch of the wonder drug called ETERNITY. But at the same time continuing with the latest storyline of the KILLERS GUILD.

And that's what's on my mind right now. I look forward to it. Trent Smith is, after all, my favorite character of all time. Pardon the bias, but he is the world's greatest martial artist. He is a master of the world's deadliest art. A rogue vigilante who is beholden to no one. And with his agenda paramount in his mind, it's a never-ending story. At least for him.
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