The Covenant (Naomi Ragen)

The Covenant is the story behind the headlines we read every day, the heart-wrenching reality of modern life, where terrorists reign and average citizens find themselves at the pivot of politics and history. Living in Jerusalem, Elise Margulies fears for the lives of her husband and daughter every day. Then comes the day when her worst fears are realized. Cancer specialist Dr. Jonathan Margulies drives his young daughter home from her ballet recital and his bullet-ridden car is found empty on the side of the road hours later. Elise, in the last stages of a difficult pregnancy, desperately calls her grandmother Leah in America for help and unknowingly revives a decades-old oath that transcends both time and place. Over the course of five terror and hope-filled days during which ordinary people join the front lines against terrorism, the ties that bind two generations forge a potent alliance against contemporary evil. With this novel, which examines the passionate and terrifying struggle to preserve life in any age, Naomi Ragen is at her most powerful and engrossing.