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Part travelogue, part true-thriller, Edward Fox's brilliantly
original book investigates the murder of a US archaeologist on the
West Bank in 1992 and opens up the Palestinian world he served - a
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil of Palestine and the West
Bank. On 19 January 1992, Dr Albert Glock - US citizen,
archaeologist and Director of Archaeology at Bir Zeit University in
the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was murdered by an assassin. Two
bullets to the heart. The witness statements were confused, the
autopsy inadequate. The police took three hours to arrive at the
scene, from their HQ ten minutes away. Who killed Albert Glock? The
Palestinians blamed the Israelis, the Israelis blamed an
inter-departmental feud at the university, or extreme Palestinian
groups. But those close to Bir Zeit, to the political situation on
the West Bank, had a simple line of advice: 'Look to the
archaeology, ' they repeated. 'Look to the archaeology.' For Albert
Glock had started to uncover truths about the distant Palestinian
past which Israel found uncomfortable. For Israel, Palestine was a
country without a people - for a people without a country. Now
Glock, through his archaeological finds, was showing that their
version was flawed. He was publishing papers about the ancient
traditions and settlements throughout Palestine, and discovering
hugely significant facts about the ancient Palestinian way of life.
Glock had given up a glittering career to teach at Palestine's
beleaguered, besieged and underfunded university which faced
closure at worst, and curfew at best - daily. Edward Fox's
extraordinary book weaves together the story of Glock's murder with
the history of biblical archaeology and the brutal, Byzantine
politics of the intifada. It is written as a true-life thriller
which opens up the Palestine in which Glock lived and worked, the
people he knew and the turbulent politics of the middle east. This
is brilliantly original writing and compelling storytelling quite
unlike any other work yet published on the Middle East
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