The descendants of Abraham clash for the glory of God. In a land where retaliation is as assured as the rising sun, an ancient nail is discovered in a Roman crucifixion hill. A Palestinian gives up his life during the discovery. In retaliation to his death, terrorists blow up a Passover observance in Jerusalem, killing numerous Israelis. Could the crucifixion nail be the one that pierced the flesh of Jesus Christ? Dating tests indicate it could very well be the one. Israelis dangle the possibility before American Christians. No matter what the archeologists decide, American Christians want the nail they believe touched their Lord, but money will not buy it from the Israelis. A deal is made. American Christians send their do-anything man, an assassin of the unholy, with the equation for the world's most deadly bomb, powerful enough to level a tiny Middle East nation, a heretofore impossible to create, pure fusion one that a bible-quoting general stole from the Pentagon. What should have been a simple exchange between an Israeli and the American turns disastrous when a Palestinian woman, some refer to as an assassin of the Shaviah practitioners, happens upon the nail after executing an archeologist, doubling as an Israeli military officer. The chase is on for the female thief: the Israelis and the Palestinians want the bomb more than the nail to destroy each other; the Americans want the nail to lay the groundwork for a Second Coming of their Lord. The woman ends up with both the nail and the bomb with the intent to destroy everyone, if the American and Israelis cannot derail her. The stakes are high-a nuclear holocaust in the troubled Middle East. For the Israelis, the Palestinians and the Americans, catching the woman is akin to capturing light, as she pops up everywhere: in Jordon where a Mossad agent is found dead; in Syria where a feared Mukhabarut, Secret Police, agent is found dead, in Lebanon where Hezbollah plots against Israel; in Pakistan where the foremost Muslim nuclear physicist can be found; in Egypt where a contact to al Qaeda can be found; and in Sudan where primitive conditions lend the right atmosphere to building a super thermonuclear bomb. No one can place the Palestinian woman's whereabouts, until a very fateful day when she appears in Mecca during the Hajj.
