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.




Monday, July 22, 2013

Melange Agrees to Reload KOK

It's a great day. Melange will indeed reload the rewritten version of Killer of Killers, and it will be released as the second printing. Or would that be second edition? Whatever. It's going to be up to date with the modern POV fiction writing style, and I will be even more into promoting it. However, if you are a collector, and value the first printing, as collectors do, then I might suggest to get your copy right now, or within the next couple of days.

And that's because I'm going to read through KOK one more time, just to make sure I didn't miss anything, and then I will send it to Melange. One of their editors will also read through it, and then it will be re-released. And at that point, only the second printings will be available. To me, that will be the better edition, as it will have all the modern POV limited aspects included.

Either way, I hope you buy a copy. Because then my next move is to find an agent to see if he or she can find a movie director for it. It's a great story for a martial arts movie. So we'll see how that goes. Stay tuned.

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