num_pages: 528
description: 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.Ambitious, passionate, darkly comic, Damascus Gate is not only Robert Stone’s biggest and best novel to date, but a timely and brilliant story of belief, power, salvation, and apocalypse.
language: English
title: Damascus Gate
titlecomplete: Damascus Gate
genres: Mystery, Religion, Contemporary, Novels, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Literature, Israel, Fiction, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 1057
places: Israel
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Touchstone