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By the Rivers of Babylon
Nelson DeMille

By the Rivers of Babylon

Grand Central Publishing (Jun 01, 1990)
9780446358590
| Mass Market Paperback
432 pages | 106 x 166 mm | English
Dewey 813.54

Subject

  • Adventure Fiction
  • Middle East
  • Mystery Fiction
  • Peace Treaties
  • Terrorism

Plot

Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind.Suddenly they're forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death.