A Scribe Dies in Brooklyn

Rabbi Ben #2

by Marvin J. Wolf

Rabbi Ben, hero of For Whom The Shofar Blows, is back, and more than ever he's not your bubbe's rebbe: Lured to a clandestine meeting with the President of Israel, Ben is asked to find the long-missing third of the Aleppo Codex, the world's oldest complete Hebrew Bible, rivaled in historical importance only by the Dead Sea Scrolls. The missing pages reportedly surfaced in Brooklyn's Syrian Jewish community, only to vanish again. It's a job that only Ben can handle.

Plunging into a strange, quasi-medieval culture that is both Middle Eastern and Iberian, Ben learns that others seek the Codex-and that they don't play nice. His guide to all things Aleppo-on Gravesend Bay is Miryam, the sassy, sexy, sweet, grand-niece of the late and increasingly mysterious man rumored to have smuggled the Codex out of Syria almost 70 years earlier. Sparks fly as mystery veers toward a surprise romance and an ending that you won't see coming.

Genres: Mystery

430 pages, Paperback

Published January 6, 2017

About the author

The son of a junkman and a mad housewife (really--she spent half her adult life in mental hospitals), Wolf served 13 years on active duty with the US Army, including a 15-month combat tour in Vietnam. He has worked as a dishwasher, an encyclopedia salesman, a camera store clerk and as a photojournalist with worldwide credits. In 1983, when he regained sole custody of his only child, he put aside his successful career in photojournalism to become an author. A Los Angeles Times bestselling author, Wolf has three times been recognized by the American Society of Journalists and Authors for his professionalism. In 2001, Wolf took a nine-year detour through the movie and television business, an education in writing fiction. One of his screenplays, "Ladies Night," was produced and aired on the USA Network. He returned to writing books and launched a career in fiction in 2010. He lives with his adult daughter in Asheville, NC.