"I am dangling beneath my parachute. Gazing down from a height of 10,000 feet, knowing I am going to be killed in less than fifteen minutes, I feel great sorrow for myself. None of my fellow pilots whove parachuted into the Nile Delta have survived the encounter with the welcoming committee below, and I have no reason to think my fate will be any different."
-- Giora Romm, Solitary

"Giora Romms Solitary seized me from the opening paragraph. Yes, the storytelling is spellbinding, but it is Romms explication of the theme of the fall, ordeal and self-resurrection that places his book not...