Publisher's Synopsis
An emotionally involving novel, based on fact, from a Booker-prize winning writer. 1947: One year before the Israeli war of independence and Palestine is still under the British Mandate. Young Israelis are flocking to the leadership of Manachim Begin and his Irgun terrorist movement in an attempt to overthrow their rulers. Two British sergeants have been kidnapped by the Irgun. They will be executed unless there is a widespread amnesty for the Irgun freedom fighters - and so begins a hunt to find the two innocent men.
