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Summary: Jerusalem: home to seekers, heretics, hustlers, and madmen of many faiths. In this most fractious city, a plot unfolds to bomb the sacred Temple Mount. Christopher Lucas, an expatriate American journalist, stumbles upon the plot while investigating religious fanatics. Entangled in the intrigue are a nightclub singer, an unstable Jewish guru, a strung-out Kabbalist seeking the messiah, and a soldier of fortune routinely found at the worldâ™s violent clashes. A confrontation in Gaza, a chase through riot-filled streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground mazeâas Lucas races against time, he uncovers the duplicity and depravity on all sides of Jerusalemâ™s sacred struggle. An explosive 1998 bestseller, Damascus Gate lays bare the dangers at the fringes of faith.