Print version due for release in November 2011

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"... the eyes were fixed on the centre of his chest, the mouth cruelly contorting as the soldier raised the spear and gathered strength for the downward plunge.

With a shock Hallam realised he was only moments away from death.

He steeled himself and yet needed, desperately, to protest, not ready yet to contemplate dying.

A sound escaped his frozen lips. A husky, choking from deep within his throat.

The young woman screamed..."

A non-stop action-filled epic of sailing and exploration in the time of the Phoenicians. A time when ships were at the mercy of the winds, and men were at the mercy of kings. Based on historical facts and archaeological controversy. A tale that explores the truth of where lies the fabled mountains and wide river that gave up its treasures for King Solomon’s temple of gold.

."...Jerry, I do like this book. What makes you such a b***** good writer is your adaptability. Each book that I have read so far is set in a different time and background, and yet each is equally compelling. I'd be hard pushed to answer if anyone asked which was my favourite."

Jenny Hewitt - Author and editor

It is 962 BC and the dawn of the golden years for King Solomon who is at the pinnacle of power. He has few enemies other than the exiled Prince Hadad of Edom, whose men harass Solomon’s tax inspectors on the silk road and plunder the caravans. With Phoenician pilots provided by his friend King Hiram of Tyre, Solomon’s ships and agents ply the coasts of the Narrow Sea, trading from Egypt to Saba and around the horn of Africa, hugging the treacherous coast as far as Opone and Serapio.

Solomon’s promise to his father to build a temple in his honour is about to be realised, although he is still unaware that it will be constructed of gold. Gold he does not have.

Then on a small island across a narrow stretch of sea from Tyre, the son of a local potter stumbles, naked, into the presence of the niece of King Hiram and the course of history is changed. It is a meeting that sets the participants onto a forbidden path, risking dishonour and death. But other forces are at work that will forge their lives, and the lives of many others at the farthest reaches of the known world. The forces of greed and revenge, of passion, obsession, loyalty, and love strong enough to span the voids of distance and time.

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