The first killing came with the ppring, when the body of a young prostitute was found outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Next, the corpse of an American nun turned up. Then a young Arab transvestite. All were disfigured with the same hideous slashings on their beaten, mutilated bodies.

It was the beginning of a lengthening list of victims and Jerusalem Police Detective David Bar-Lev pursued a trail of sex and savagery, corruption and guilt that crossed all borders to both Russia and America...to reach the most shocking secret a dedicated investigator could uncover and the hardest choice a man could make...