Leon Uris’s world-bestselling novel EXODUS became a profound influence on thoughts and feelings about the state of Israel. In THE HAJ, the author once again portrays a tormented nation through its living people.

Haj Ibrahim-known as the Haj – is leader of the small but strategically placed village of Tabah. Sworn enemy – and secret friend – of Gideon Asch, Israeli settler, pioneer, fighter, the Haj and his men are seen first in all their false courage and manic ambition. Theirs is a world of oaths, blood, death and vengeance. But then his association with Asch takes him elsewhere – into diplomacy, and towards leadership of another kind…

In EXODUS, Leon Uris told of the birth of a new nation. In THE HAJ, he foretells the death of a race, of a faith, of peoples who have no greater enemies than themselves, in a novel that is as violent and turbulent as the times in which we live…