Damascus Gate - by Robert Stone (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Set in Jerusalem, where violence, ecstasy, heresy, and salvation are all to be found, the latest novel by the author of "Outerbridge Reach" is simultaneously the story of a man's search for truth and the story of a city where sanity is casually traded for faith. Christopher Lucas's investigation of religious lunatics who have fallen victim to "Jerusalem Syndrome" places him at the center of the world's next flashpoint.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>On the cusp of the millennium, Jerusalem has become a battleground in the race for redemption. American journalist Christopher Lucas is investigating religious fanatics when he discovers a plot to bomb the sacred Temple Mount. A violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip, a race through riot-filled streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze -- as Lucas follows his leads, he uncovers an attempt to seize political advantage that reveals duplicity and depravity on all sides of Jerusalem's sacred struggle. <br> Ambitious, passionate, darkly comic, <i>Damascus Gate</i> is not only Robert Stone's biggest and best novel to date, but a timely and brilliant story of belief, power, salvation, and apocalypse.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Publishers Weekly</i> A major work in every aspect...bold and bracing, ambitious and inspired, <i>Damascus Gate</i> is...an astonishment.<br><br>Annie Dillard Here is our masterpiece writer, Robert Stone, writing his book of books, his millennial novel of the millennial place....Here are Stone's most magnified, vivid, lunatic, and tender characters. Christopher Lucas engages us profoundly: a modest wit, who keeps faith in a faithless world....<i>Damascus Gate</i> is a narrative of good and evil written in letters of fire.<br><br>Daphne Merkin <i>The New Yorker</i> The definitive novel about Israel....Stone brings its tensions and dilemmas into characteristically sharp focus....Brims over with plots, subplots, and an impressive array of incisively drawn characters...the range of his knowledge is spectacular.<br><br>Francine Prose <i>The New York Observer</i> Complex, brilliant...<i>Damascus Gate</i> keeps our attention riveted...fiction that combines the pleasure of a thriller with those of a novel of ideas.<br><br>James Hynes <i>The Washington Post Book World</i> A stunning novel by a great American author.<br><br>Jonathan Rosen <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> He has faced his novel with the literary equivalent of Jerusalem stone, the luminous chiseled rock that lends authenticity to almost every building in Jerusalem....<br><br>Lisa Zeidner <i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i> <i>Damascus Gate</i>...is the rare real thing: a cerebral thriller....Precise and passionate, <i>Damascus Gate</i> is a stunning achievement.<br><br>Michiko Kakutani <i>The New York Times</i> Gripping....The endgame he plays is masterly: thrilling, coiled, and somehow both inevitable and surprising.<br><br>Paul Gray <i>Time</i> Not even his dedicated readers will be able to foresee the twists and impact of this new novel. <i>Damascus Gate</i> is a transcendent thriller.<br><br>Ward Just Robert Stone is an explorer who takes his readers to the fractured edges of the known world. <i>Damascus Gate</i> is a triumph. Stone at the height of his powers.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Robert Stone</b> is the author of <i>A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, </i> and <i>Outerbridge Reach.</i> He won the National Book Award for <i>Dog Soldiers</i> and the Faulkner Foundation Award for his first novel, <i>A Hall of Mirrors.</i> He lives with his wife in Connecticut
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