title: The Jerusalem File
author:  Joel Stone 
description: Stone, who died in 2007, successfully grafts a classic hard-boiled detective plot line onto the complexities and dangers of life in modern Israel in his final novel. When Prof. Jacob Kaye suspects his attractive wife, Deborah, of infidelity, he hires Levin, a former Israeli security service officer turned PI, to shadow her around the streets of Jerusalem. Levin quickly confirms his client's fears. When Deborah's art professor lover is gunned down on the road to Jaffa, an apparent victim of a random Palestinian sniper attack, Levin wonders whether Kaye was behind the murder. While the gumshoe's growing attraction to the woman in the case is stock material, Stone (<I>A Town Called Jericho</I>) uses it to challenge his lead character's retreat from life and generally passive attitude. The book also nicely captures the inherently tenuous nature of life in the Holy City, where a door-to-door insurance salesman offers a small extra charge for terrorism coverage. <I>(Feb.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  The New Jerusalem
  
  
  [PREFACE.](The%20New%20Jerusalem_split_001.html#filepos3977)
  
  [CHAPTER I. THE WAY OF THE
  CITIES](The%20New%20Jerusalem_split_001.html#filepos7528)
  
  [CHAPTER II. THE WAY OF THE
  DESERT](The%20New%20Jerusalem_split_001.html#filepos38516)
  
  [CHAPTER III. THE GATES OF THE
  CITY](The%20New%20Jerusalem_split_001.html#filepos79144)
  
  [CHAPTER IV. THE PHILOSOPHY OF SIGHT-
  SEEING](The%20New%20Jerusalem_split_001.html#filepos114261)
  
  [CHAPTER V. THE STREETS OF THE
  CITY](The%20New%20Jerusalem_split_001.html#filepos144815)
  
  [CHAPTER VI. THE GROUPS OF THE
  CITY](The%20New%20Jerusalem_split_002.html#filepos190127)
  
  [CHAPTER VII. THE SHADOW OF THE
  PROBLEM](The%20New%20Jerusalem_split_002.html#filepos229060)
  
  [CHAPTER VIII. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
  DESERT](The%20New%20Jerusalem_split_002.html#filepos259351)
  
  [CHAPTER IX. THE BATTLE WITH THE
  DRAGON](The%20New%20Jerusalem_split_002.html#filepos298888)
  
  [CHAPTER X. THE ENDLESS
  EMPIRE](The%20New%20Jerusalem_split_