The MagazineMysteries of IsraelFour unexpected thrillers from the Jewish state.Sep 13, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 48
• By ABBY WISSE SCHACHTER
 The Last Ember The Last Secret by Avraham Anouchi The Menorah Men Jonathan Marcus, the hottie hero of Daniel Levin’s religio-thriller The Last Ember (2009), is back in Rome seven years after a tragedy cut short what was supposed to be his brilliant archaeological career. A high powered New York law firm has jetted Marcus, a former star classics student and Rome prize-winner, to the Italian capital to defend a client accused of stealing antiquities. The case brings Marcus face to face with his old flame Dr. Emili Travia, and lands him deep inside a complicated and dangerous thrill ride in this cross between Indiana Jones and The Da Vinci Code. Marcus and Travia race around, but mostly underneath, Rome and Jerusalem trying to piece together a 2,000-year-old mystery. What really happened to the eight-foot solid gold Menorah that supposedly stood in the Holy of Holies of the second ancient Jewish temple destroyed in 70 A.D., the menorah so famously depicted on the Arch of Titus? Was Flavius Josephus really the most famous Jewish turncoat, or some kind of double agent? What “mistake” was Emperor Titus referring to on his deathbed? To read more, you must be a Weekly Standard Subscriber We're Sorry,
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