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Codename Jerusalem: A WWII Historical Espionage Thriller
Paperback
Series: The Eddington Files, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 8 2026
Pages: 370
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
JERUSALEM, 1938.
The city is a powder keg-Arab revolt, Zionist resistance, British paralysis. Charles Eddington, a diplomat exiled for asking dangerous questions in Vienna, arrives in the Mandate expecting nothing but a quiet place to fail.
Beneath the limestone streets, another war is already being fought.
The Nazi Ahnenerbe are digging. Their official mission: trace the roots of the Aryan race. Their actual target: the Prophecies of Ezinaiah-ancient texts containing a terrifying anomaly. To a mystic, they are visions of fire from heaven. To a physicist, they read like a manual for nuclear fission.
SS officer Dietrich Baumann, scholar turned zealot, believes these scrolls will give the Reich the weapon to end history itself.
To stop him, Charles must enter a world of masks and compromises. He finds himself allied with Eve Weiss, a Viennese refugee who traded her cello for a rifle, and Eliora Ben-David, who runs a shadow intelligence network from a brothel's basement while the British play at empire above.
From the silent crypts of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the suffocating tunnels beneath the Temple Mount, Charles and his unlikely allies race to find the scrolls before the Reich decodes them. Because the prophecies don't just predict the coming darkness-they explain how to make it permanent.
In a world sliding toward catastrophe, the truth is the only weapon that matters.
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