Publisher's Synopsis
Six Palestinian murder/suicide bombers have targeted a Tel-Aviv Culture Center. In the four-story complex each bomber is assigned a floor to detonate himself, with the exception of the theater, which has two assigned bombers. They are to explode in rapid succession for maximum effect: to bring the building down on the hundreds of gallery visitors, planetarium viewers, and the theater audience. The explosions take place as planned except for one. In the lower level, ten meters below street level only one of the bombers exploded as planned. The sixth bomber fails to explode. The bomber is instead trapped beneath the rubble and bodies of the victims. Another survivor, a guard, (a black Jew reservist, a member of the Israel Defense Force), who, as a civilian is a Tel-Aviv University professor (of the Diaspora: the flight of the Jews and the Palestinians), finds the surviving bomber (unknown to him as a bomber).
