Long Way To Shiloh - Softcover
IN THE SANDSWEPT HEART OF AN ANCIENT LAND WAITS THE LAST GREAT TREASURE...Treasure priceless beyond mere money. The Menorah: the seven branched lamp, true symbol of Judaism, believed lost, destroyed, two thousand years ago. Now rumour has become fact. Ancient scrolls have been discovered attesting to its survival, hinting at its final hiding place. For the Israelis, no sacrifice is too great to ensure its safe homecoming. But some of Israel's neighbouring states have very different ideas. Caspar Laing, a brilliant young professor of Semitics, is brought to Israel for a secret and highly dangerous mission: to decode the scrolls and locate the prize. His only problem - staying alive long enough to do so...
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As significant as Len Deighton or le Carré in bringing a gritty new realism to the thriller. (Sunday Telegraph)
A Long Way to Shiloh added a new dimension to [Davidson's work]. It had its ceaselessly gripping story - a hunt for the centuries-lost true Menorah from the Temple at Jerusalem - it had its quota of sheer adventure, it had its sharpness of tone that helped to trick you deliciously into full belief, it had its immensely funny passages and it had all that overwhelming vividness. But it had something more as well. It had a setting that was . . . a character in the book in its own right . . . A joy to devour. (H. R. F. Keating The Times)
Long before Indiana Jones, it casts an archaeologist as a hero . . . Davidson is especially good at being realistically funny without in any way losing the tension or the fear. (Peter Hitchens)
A supple delight in which learning, wit and style are beautifully integrated. (New York Times)
Brilliantly entertaining. (Sunday Express)
A very superior thriller indeed. (Daily Mail)
First-rate. (Guardian)
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A Long Way to Shiloh added a new dimension to [Davidson's work]. It had its ceaselessly gripping story - a hunt for the centuries-lost true Menorah from the Temple at Jerusalem - it had its quota of sheer adventure, it had its sharpness of tone that helped to trick you deliciously into full belief, it had its immensely funny passages and it had all that overwhelming vividness. But it had something more as well. It had a setting that was . . . a character in the book in its own right . . . A joy to devour. (H. R. F. Keating The Times)
Long before Indiana Jones, it casts an archaeologist as a hero . . . Davidson is especially good at being realistically funny without in any way losing the tension or the fear. (Peter Hitchens)
A supple delight in which learning, wit and style are beautifully integrated. (New York Times)
Brilliantly entertaining. (Sunday Express)
A very superior thriller indeed. (Daily Mail)
First-rate. (Guardian)
A fiery young professor goes on the hunt for a priceless artefact in this no. 1 bestselling thriller.
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- PublisherArrow Books Ltd
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0099415941
- ISBN 13 9780099415947
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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