I know that this is a murder mystery and not a political science textbook, but if an author is going to place his characters in a politically charged area like the West Bank, he should at least try to portray the situation realistically.Land is clearly pro-Palestinian and after about 150 pages I had to stop reading. Land constantly has his Palestinian character go on tirades about how "thousands (of Israelis) were involved in the administrative detentions, the torture, the terrorizing (!) of our young, the closing of our schools." The Israeli character just makes dumb replies as if to admit to such nonsense. Land often makes the argument that the only reason Palestinian terror exists is because the Israelis were so mean to them.What drivel.