This book held my interest from start to finish. A neurosurgeon has been more or less banished to a small desert town in Israel after a professional disagreement at his hospital in Tel Aviv. He is married to a police detective and has two sons, none of whom are happy in their dusty outpost. Late one night after a long day at the hospital, he is letting off steam in the desert by driving fast and recklessly. Unfortunately, he hits and kills a man in a deserted area. Thus begins a plot which tangles him in a web of lies to his wife as he desperately tries to extricate himself from a blackmail scheme where he is forced to treat illegal Bedouins who are being exploited by unscrupulous employers. The story revolves around attraction and love, guilt, morality, privilege, and touches on all the problems and politics we are grappling with in the modern world. All the while, Eitan’s wife is working to solve the desert murder.
This is a terrific book and one of the best I have read this year. I highly recommend it to all readers and reading groups. There is much to ponder.
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