Highlander(TM): Zealot (Highlander (Warner)) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Donna Lettow (Author)

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Product Description
Duncan MacLeod, member of an age-old race of immortal beings, is in Paris helping a friend organize a museum exhibit of ancient cultures destroyed by the Romans. While unwrapping a priceless scroll of the Torah, Duncan remembers Avram Mordecai, a young Immortal who was determined to see the Romans defeated and the lands of Israel returned to the Hebrews. When Duncan meets Maral, a Palestinian delegate to the Arab-Israeli peace talks, he falls irrevocably in love. But as the tense negotiations unfold, Duncan realizes that Avram still lives--and he has not forgotten his holy war. Now Duncan is trapped between an old friend and the woman he loves.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Aspect (November 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446604577
• ISBN-13: 978-0446604574
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #828,302 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of the bunch, July 27, 2000

By	Kristina (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews

This is my favorite HL tie-in novel. The TV characters are true to form, the story is compelling, the flashback is intriguing, and the love scenes are hot!

I love the parallelism between the current story and the flashback. What's the difference between a true believer - a zealot, and a terrorist? Who decides? When does patriotism turn into something else? How do you balance the passion of belief with the pragmatism of politics? How do you balance your fervent passion about something against someone else's for the exact opposite thing?

Maral was an intriguing character. I liked her. I wanted to know more about her, and more about what happened to her later.

The flashback to Masada was written so well...it was one of the most vibrant and alive parts of the book for me. I could *see* it in my mind. And the WW2 flashback was very moving. The rabbi and the tunnel linger in my mind.

This is one of the HL books that I had to read more than once, I enjoyed it so much.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Middle East dilemma made clearer through fiction, January 11, 1998

By	Susan M. Garrett (Toms River, NJ) - See all my reviews

TV Tie-in novels are difficult books to write--the author must walk a fine line between writing a true novel (in which a character must change despite or due to the course of events) and satisfying the wants and desires of a licensor and a television audience (the former of whom demands that all characters must be placed back in the box, unchanged, at the end of the story and the latter, who demand more from a novel than from an hour of television).

What to do? Find a subject that is overwhelming in its scope and use the well-known characters to provide a window through which that subject may be better understood.

Donna Lettow does an excellent job in providing an accessible and balanced portrait of the situation in the Middle East, how one man's terrorist is another's zealot, how hatred can obscure sense and how love can engender compassion and, if not understanding, then acceptance.

She manages to provide a range of information in a palatable fashion--neither bookish, nor cursory--and conveys a sense of the history of that troubled region that both educates and enthralls the reader.

The flaw in this is that the main television character, Duncan, seems pallid in comparison with the energetic and vibrant supporting characters. There is, as required in "Highlander," enough immortal swordplay to satisfy one who fancies that aspect of the show and it's true that the fates of all of the main characters are pretty much telegraphed from the opening chapters of the book, but the real life drama of the violent conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians over a homeland beloved and claimed by either over-rides the series aspects of the novel.

If such entertainment is to have a purpose, let it educate and aid in understanding of common, human problems. Through the use of the immortal characters in "Highlander," Donna Lettow has done just that.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Blech!, September 23, 1999

By A Customer

If I hadn't PAID for this thing, I might've VOMITTED all over it! WHERE did this woman learn to write?? DO NOT pay money for this! Learn from my mistake! Don't be fooled by the largely favourable reviews here. This novel is the literary equivalent of the trashiest "bodice-ripper" romance novel. Come nowhere near this thing!