I have to admit that although this is a slim volume, it was a struggle to finish it. The main reason to keep going was the pleasant surprise I experienced when 'The Rose of Tibet' kicked into gear about two thirds of the way through. No such luck here I'm afraid. An uninteresting protagonist gets into various scrapes in Israel. It had great potential but sadly failed to live up to it. The action is ratcheted up, but ultimately I found I really didn't care whether he lived or died.
A measure of how little satisfaction I got from this is that the only lasting memory I will take from it is that 'our man' had a job at the then fictional University of Bedfordshire. I fear that the academic credentials of the current version of that institution are on a par with the literary credentials of this forgettable effort from Davidson.
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