Jacob Lev is a burnt out homicide cop who requested a
transfer and got it. As he enjoys the boredom of writing
reports for traffic he drinks way too much, has completely
lost his faith and feels himself falling into depression.
After a night of way too much drinking he wakes up with a
absolutely beautiful woman he can't remember. Moments
after she leaves a couple of police officers come for
Jacob
and take him to a very strange crime scene. They claim to
be with special services and insist that he work for them
and solve the case. Not left with a choice Jacob begins
to
investigate the case and things quickly get very strange.
As you read the progress of this very strange case there
is
a parallel story that runs alongside it, the historical
fiction of Adam, Eve, Cain, Able and Asham. It is
fascinating to read these two stories and watch as they
become one. I always love historical fiction, reading past
events from the first person perspective of an author.
You can't help but be drawn into the process of the two
stories becoming one. Jacob has struggled with his faith
for years and watching him as he faces things he has
refused to believe is intriguing. Jonathan and Jesse
Kellerman have created an interesting and unique story
with THE GOLEM OF HOLLYWOOD.
A burned-out L.A. detective . . . a woman of mystery who
is
far more than she seems . . . a grotesque, ancient monster
bent on a mission of retribution. When these three
collide,
a new standard of suspense is born.
The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the
ages, a creature fashioned by a sixteenth-century rabbi to
protect his congregation, now lying dormant in the garret
of
a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer.
Detective Jacob Lev wakes one morning, dazed and confused:
He seems to have picked up a beautiful woman in a bar the
night before, but he can’t remember anything about the
encounter, and before he knows it, she has gone. But this
mystery pales in comparison to the one he’s about to be
called on to solve. Newly reassigned to a Special Projects
squad he didn’t even know existed, he’s sent to a murder
scene far up in the hills of Hollywood Division. There is
no
body, only an unidentified head lying on the floor of a
house. Seared into a kitchen counter nearby is a single
word: the Hebrew for justice.
Detective Lev is about to embark on an odyssey—through Los
Angeles, through many parts of the United States, through
London and Prague, but most of all, through himself. All
that he has believed to be true will be upended—and not
only
his world, but the world itself, will be changed.
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