Christopher Lucas is a jaded American journalist drifting between jobs in Jerusalem. A nature both searching and sceptical and a lack of fixed religious identity render him almost invisible in a place where sanity is casually traded for faith. Then a new assignment draws him into the depravity and duplicity on all sides of the struggle for the city's soul. His investigation of religious lunatics who have fallen victim to 'Jerusalem Syndrome' leads him to Sonia, a beautiful Sufi and nightclub singer; Adam De Kuff, an unstable Jewish guru; Razz Melder, his strung-out, misguided apostle; and Jan Zimmer, a solider of fortune who - for the right price - will place himself at the heart of the world's next flashpoint.
What is the cost of loyalty, of betrayal, of faith? For the characters in 'Damascus Gate', these are the questions of life and death. From a violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip to a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze, from a race through riot-filled Jerusalem streets to a desperate attempt to prevent a bomb from detonating beneath the Temple Mount, 'Damascus Gate' is an exhilarating journey through the moral and religious ambiguities which haunt the holiest of cities.
