Omar Yussef, a history teacher at a UN school in the West Bank, manages to stay away from all the violence surrounding him, until a former pupil, George Saba, a Palestinian Christian accused of collaborating with the Israelis, is charged with murder, and Omar, unable to believe in his guilt, decides to investigate the case for himself. A first novel. Reprint.
MATT BEYNON REES is the former Jerusalem bureau chief for Time. Born in Wales, he is the author of Cain’s Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East and The Collaborator of Bethlehem, the first book in the Omar Yussef series. He lives in Jerusalem and maintains a website at www.mattbeynonrees.com.