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The Last Secret of the Temple Paperback – Illustrated, September 1, 2008

by Paul Sussman (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 1,820 ratings
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In the year 70 AD, as the Romans sacked and destroyed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, a young Jewish boy was hidden away and chosen as the guardian of a great secret. For seventy generations this secret remained safeguarded. But in present day Israel, a Jewish radical threatens to reveal this hidden truth and use it to rend apart the fragile Middle East—and only an unlikely duo of hardened detectives of very different origins and a young, enterprising Palestinian journalist can unite to ward off disaster.

A relentless and fast-paced thriller that moves from Egypt to Jerusalem to the Sinai Desert, that spans the millennia and involves Cathar heretics, Nazi prisoners, and modern-day suicide bombers, Paul Sussman’s The Last Secret of the Temple is a thrilling, roller-coaster adventure that brilliantly examines the participants on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Timely, important, and completely absorbing, it marks Paul Sussman as one of today’s great thriller writers.
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  2. Language
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  4. Publication date
    September 1, 2008
  5. Dimensions
    5.25 x 1.75 x 8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0802143938
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0802143938
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“While Paul Sussman’s brilliant novel, The Last Secret of the Temple, will be compared to Dan Brown’s eight-hundred-pound gorilla, it is so much more. The mystery runs deeper, the history more accurate, the suspense drawn to a keener edge….Here is a thriller on par with the best literature out there.” –James Rollins, author of The Judas Strain

“Not just a tightly plotted, richly observed, thought-provoking thriller, but one with a soul.” –Raymond Khoury, author of The Last Templar

“A brilliant detective novel…Paul Sussman has managed the impossible: a multi-layered quest where all the characters are real and alive, and we should expect the completely unexpected.” –Katherine Neville, author of The Eight

“Another surefire winner from a gifted storyteller.” –Steve Berry, author of The Templar Legacy

“The Last Secret of the Temple won’t disappoint….Sussman succeeds on the strength of his intelligence, empathy, and sense of pace…Khalifa…is a fine creation.” –Ross King, The Washington Post

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A pulse-pounding, roller coaster of an adventure.
When the body of hotel owner Jan Weiss is discovered at Malqata, an archeological site on the west bank of the Nile, it looks like a routine investigation for Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police. But the more the detective finds out about Weiss, the more he is reminded of the brutal killing of an Israeli woman at Karnak years ago -- a murder for which he has always suspected the wrong man had been convicted. Despite opposition from his superiors and his own misgivings about working with the Israelis, Khalifa re-opens the case and teams up with hard-nosed Jerusalem detective Arieh Ben Roi.
At the same time journalist Eva Town receives an anonymous letter at her Jerusalem home. It requests her help in contacting "Al-Mulassam" ("The Veiled One"), a Palestinian extremist leader she has recently interviewed; in return it offers her the scoop of a lifetime.
Against a backdrop of escalating violence between Israelis and Palestinians, Eva follows up the cryptic letter while Khalifa and Arieh slowly uncover the unpleasant truth about Jan Weiss. Their investigations intertwine as they all get further in to the web of duplicity and intrigue that has at its center an ancient artifact of such potent symbolism that it could plunge the Middle East into an all-out war.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grove Press; Reprint edition (September 1, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 555 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0802143938
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0802143938
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1.75 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Theodora A. House
5.0 out of 5 stars Surprises at the end!
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2024
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I enjoyed the book, however the first chapters, with description of politics and conflict almost made me put it down. Once characters were introduced and the real story started, it kept me interested. Had me surprised at "who done it." Easy read once in the story.
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Billy D. Gatton
4.0 out of 5 stars A well written mystery
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2022
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The outstanding thing to me was the author's ability to convey not only history but the true emotions of hatred and love. There is so much information but presented not as a text book but a great emotional story,
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gold and Nazis
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The first half of the book I read in twenty page segments. The last half, I found the book hard to put down. A lot of ground to cover with a compelling story. The characters are fully developed and the story is full of surprises. I needed a good read and I got it.
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notYetBorn
3.0 out of 5 stars Review for Kindle edition
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2009
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My review has two parts - one about the book, and one specifically about the Kindle edition.

The book like many in its genre is gripping and at the same time, completely forgettable once you put it down. It's a decent yarn (sometimes unexpected, sometimes painfully obvious) but it relies on a sequence of highly improbably events and contains a number of highly improbably scenes. I won't go into specifics because I don't want to give anything away - enough to say that as I was reading a few of those passages I thought "wow - was actually OK up till now, suddenly turned into stupid." The research overall is very decent lending a general aura of reality to the book.

Character development and language are indeed superior to the Da Vinci Code (why is everyone comparing this book to DVC?) but that's really not saying anything. And yes - despite its length and sometimes slower pace, the book does manage to hold your attention to the very end.

When it comes to the characters, some are painfully stereotypical but those are the better ones. The book fails completely in two of its characters (one of the main ones, one a lesser one but having a critical part in the story). In its more than a century of pain now, the Israeli-Arab conflict has seen almost everything, but nothing and no one coming even close to this particular part of Sussman's imagination.

Specifics about the Kindle edition: the Kindle is infamous for not being able to display more than one font. Well - somehow, this book comes out in a different font than the standard one (both on a Kindle ver. 1.0 and a Kindle DX) and the font it comes up in is extremely unreadable. It's something like a newspaper font but with some of the characters (esp. caps) stretched and half-erased - imagine an 'H' split in two with a gap between the two parts. I have no idea how it was done but nevertheless - intriguing for being a different font, really takes away from the reading for being a very bad font. This is not a pdf - it's a regular Kindle book.

Overall and especially given the high ratings posted by fellow reviewers I was very disappointed by the time I finished it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great multinational crime novel
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2014
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I enjoyed this book very much especially the exposed intentions of the principal characters at the end of the story. The reader is skillfully prepared for the events of the story as it progresses. I would let readers know that there is a glossary of terms and labels at the end, so references to colloquial terms are available. I purposely bought this to read about the clashes and interactions of opposing communities in the area to gain some insights.
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MikiA
4.0 out of 5 stars Well -done mystery
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2018
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Readers with some knowledge of the 20th century will guess part of the mystery but the twists will keep most readers guessing. The fact that the crime is solved by the combined efforts of two men from opposite sides of the conflict in the Middle East adds to the complexity of the characters and ultimately to the sharing of goals beyond the demands of the investigation. One caveat: Readers who are put off by the inclusion of a supernatural or miraculous element in an otherwise earthbound story may find one small but significant section of the story jarring or annoying. My advice is to ignore it in favor of enjoying an intriguing story.
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5.0 out of 5 stars the characters were realistically developed although I seriously doubt travel between these areas would have been as easy as dep
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2014
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This book really kept my interest. Having lived in the Middle East for many years, the characters were realistically developed although I seriously doubt travel between these areas would have been as easy as depicted or even possible. But, it is fiction after all. The end was a surprise for me and I usually have the ends of books figured out way ahead of time. This is a good read if you like a good detective story with an international flare.
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chasbabb
4.0 out of 5 stars Just discovered Paul Sussman's books, and this one is a winner...
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2016
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After reading his "Lost Army of Cambyses" book, thought I'd take a chance on this one. I actually liked this one better, as it seemed to have more of a complex story. I really like Egyptian history, and coupled with the Nazi Germany story, this was very interesting. Could really see this being made into a movie. Looking forward to reading Paul's next book...
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Amitabha Sanyal
4.0 out of 5 stars The book
Reviewed in India on March 17, 2024
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jim
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2018
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Wonderful book- one of a series of 4- highly recommend the series.
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Robin
5.0 out of 5 stars I rarely give a book 5 stars ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2018
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... but this one I thoroughly enjoyed. Please ignore the comparisons with Dan Brown, this is a far better read; why the Da Vinci Code was so popular is completely beyond me. I'm also a little concerned at giving 5 stars because there are Kindle books that somebody gives 5 stars to that are not only badly written, but have stories that wouldn't even make the Beano. I do sometimes think that some authors get their mates to write 5 star reviews. I'd actually have given 4.5 stars as 5 should mean perfection.

The reason I'm going higher than usual on this occasion is that this book reminds me more of Tom Clancy with an archeological bent. Firstly, as has been noted it is intensely political, although done in (IMO) a fair way, i.e. it takes the Israel/Palestine problem and presents both sides equally. We are of course becoming more and more aware that the Palestinians aren't simply the bad boys as had been portrayed to us in the west for the last few decades, but this book does give some insight into how people feel on both sides (and even hope that things can be resolved). Secondly, like Mr. Clancy, for much of the book, there are seemingly unrelated threads that leave you wondering at times why you're reading it (although none as spurious as Tom Clancy's story of a tree that is being cut down in Canada which ends up sinking a submarine).

I thought the book was well written, although there were a couple of times that I thought a situation was a little contrived to move the story on, and the author hadn't thought of a more convincing way of doing it. I didn't get the twist near the end, which is unusual since in many books you know what's going to happen long before you get there.

So all in all, a very good story, thought provoking at times, not over the top 'action' wise and so good that just before writing this review I bought The Labyrinth of Osiris.
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Fuchs Joan
5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr tiefgründig
Reviewed in Germany on April 21, 2018
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Die vielen guten Kritiken hatten mich neugierig gemacht und ich habe es wahrlich nicht bereut, das Buch ist toll. Ich hatte wohl anfangs etwas Mühe, da ich mich gefragt habe, wann all die Stränge endlich zusammen laufen, aber als es dann so weit war, wurde die Geschichte sehr rasant. Mehr noch als die Geschichte sprach mich der politische Hintergrund an, der ist exzellent recherchiert und führt einem die Festgefahrenheit der Situation im Nahen Osten wieder einmal deutlich vor Augen. Nur schon deshalb 5 Sterne.
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Darklldo
5.0 out of 5 stars Need another Paul Sussman thriller
Reviewed in Australia on August 28, 2014
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Paul Sussman is well worth reading. His novels are fascinating and his characters very nice to know. I would walk past one of his book for all the tea in China :)
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