The Butcher's Theater: A Novel - Softcover

Kellerman, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345540182 ISBN 13: 9780345540188

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2013

Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher’s theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless killer performs his violent specialty. The first to die brutally is a girl. She is drained of blood, then carefully bathed and shrouded in white. Precisely one week later, a second victim is found.
 
“Crisp . . . suspenseful . . . intense.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
From the sacred Wailing Wall to monasteries where dark secrets are cloistered, from black-clad Bedouin enclaves to labyrinthine midnight alleys, veteran police inspector Daniel Sharavi and his crack team plunge deep into a city simmering with religious and political passions to hunt for a murderer whose insatiable taste for bloodshed could destroy the delicate balance on which Jerusalem’s very survival depends.

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From the Publisher:

They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher's theater: Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless killer performs his violent specialty: The first to die brutally is a fifteen-year-old girl. She is drained of blood, then carefully bathed and shrouded in white. Precisely one week later, a second victim is found.

From the sacred Wailing Wall to the monasteries where dark secrets are cloistered, from black-clad bedouin enclaves to labyrinthine midnight alleys, veteran police inspector Daniel Sharavi and his crack team plunge deep into a city simmering with religious and political passions to hunt for a murderer whos insatiable taste for young Arab women could destroy the delicate balance on which Jerusalem's very survival depends.

A brilliant novel by a master of the genre, a vivid look at the tortured complexities of a psychopath's mind, a rich evocation of a city steeped in history -- this, and more, is The Butcher's Theatre.

"Crisp...suspenseful... intense." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Spellbinding... a fascinating tale." -- Time

"A finish as tense and suspensful as that of The Day Of The Jackal or Eye Of The Needle " -- USA Today

"This one is going to scare the hell out of a lot of people on its way to the bestseller lists" -- Elmore Leonard

From the Back Cover:

A brilliant novel by a master of the genre, a vivid look at the tortured complexities of a psychopath's mind, a rich evocation of a city steeped in history -- this, and more, is The Butcher's Theatre.

"Crisp...suspenseful... intense." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Spellbinding... a fascinating tale." --
Time

"A finish as tense and suspensful as that of The Day Of The Jackal or Eye Of The Needle " -- USA Today

"This one is going to scare the hell out of a lot of people on its way to the bestseller lists" -- Elmore Leonard

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0345540182
• ISBN 13: 9780345540188
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 720