Home from the war in America, Matthew Hawkwood's return to Bow Street is marked by a summons to a burying ground and the naked corpse of a young woman; murdered, her hands and legs bound, cast into an open grave in an attempt to conceal the body...
In the grand storytelling style that is his signature, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the very beginnings of the Jewish faith, thousands of years ago. Through the predecessors of four modern men and women, we experience the entire...