City Of Secrets, O'Nan - B +

                                               This is a superb, brief, historical novel set in post-war Jerusalem.  Our lead character is Brand, a Latvian Jew who had somehow survived, and is now a taxi driver and a member of Haganah. "He wasn't weak enough to kill himself, but wasn't strong enough to stop wanting to." Throughout Palestine, the Jews waged a relentless, guerrilla war of terror against the British. Brand, who lost his wife, parents and siblings during the Holocaust loses his lover during the Irgun bombing of the King David Hotel. He's seen enough of war and violence. He leaves Jerusalem and heads to Haifa, where he can ship out, as his merchant seaman's paper are actually in order.