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Welcome to our weblog. Scroll down to read some fascinating excerpts from several of our books.Let's start with ON SINAI'S LOFTY MOUNTAIN which has been critically acclaimed.

ON SINAI'S LOFTY MOUNTAIN

by Sidney Du Broff

 

     This is a work of fiction, but a true story about a spy, Jonathan Pollard, exployed by U. S. Naval Intelligence. He discovered that vital information had been deliberately withheld from Israel, despite an agreement to the contrary, but which Pollard supplied. For him, the implications were unmistakeably clear: As far as the United States is concerned, Israel is expendable.

   Sandy Spaulding, a lawyer, is dedicated to providing help for Jonathan (who was caught by US Authorities, and sentenced to life imprisonment, his wife, Anne, to five years as an accessory). Sandy, though not born Jewish, nevertheless considers herself to be Jewish, until her huband Mark asks her to convert officially, which she refuses to do. She also refuses her son David's request for her conversion, without which he cannot have the Bar Mitzvah he intensely desires. Devoted to her husband and son, she probes deeply into her own conscience, her own culture and her own fears, wondering the extent to which these stand in the way of her making that final and decisive step.

Material from the novel:

Mark Spaulding sits at a table in Dario's with several others, near the door, in the process of finishing lunch.

Dario's is a small, intimate restaurant where Washington insiders gather to exchange thoughts, some ideas, some information, some relevant gossip.

Mark is a lawyer, a partner in the Washington-based think tank, the United States Center for World Study. He is more than six and a half feet tall, with broad shoulders, an imposing man in his early forties, as much inclined to listen as to speak.

Ruggedly good-looking, people cannot help but take notice of him, though he is not particularly aware of his exceptional looks. His eyes are brown, his hair, cut short - but not too short - is auburn. His face is clean shaven, open and inquisitive. There is an air of quiet confidence about him. His physical power is obvious, too, which he appears - not consciously - to try to minimize, concerned that it might be intimidating.

The door bursts open at Dario's. George Warton explodes into the restaurant, seething with anger and indignation, a newspaper in his hand. A man in his forties, biggish, going to fat, hair cropped short; Mark knows him as someone fairly high up in the Defense Department, whom he does not particularly like, rather overbearing like those frequently encountered at Defense.

Wharton stops in front of Mark's table. He holds up the paper, which has obviously just appeared, in both of his trembling hands. The headline screams: ALAN BRADY CAUGHT SPYING FOR ISRAEL.

In a voice filled with rage, Warton says, "He's that rotten little Jew bastard over at Naval Intelligence. All those rotten Jews are traitors. They'll sell out to Israel every day of the week. Too bad Hitler didn't get them all."

Only by chance has Warton stopped at Mark's table. Now Mark stands up, and confronts Warton, towering over him. Warton looks surprised, and annoyed, that someone is about to interfere with his important disclosures.

Mark takes a slow and deliberate step toward Warton. With the same deliberation, he gathers up Warton by the shirt front with his left hand, and smashes  him hard in the face with his right hand, the sound of fist against flesh audible throughout most of the restaurant.

The diners gasp in stunned silence as Warton falls against the not-yet-cleared table opposite. Most of those present  who are witness to the entire scenario feel immense satisfaction; those not in sympathy find it expedient to stay silent, and seated.

Warton remains immobile on the table, blood spurting from an obviously broken nose. He looks up at Mark, who is standing over him, with a mixture of terror and hatred, too frightened to move, too frightened to offer a defense. "I'll get you," Warton says. "I'll get you if it's the last thing I ever do."

Mark is in no mood to be threatened. He jerks Warton from the table, and holds him up with both hands. He looks hard into Warton's eyes, and says "Get me! Get me now, you son of a bitch!"

Now is not the time. Warton remains limp, like a rag doll, held up only by Mark's powerful hands. Warton makes no reply, aware that his immediate future is highly dubious.

Mark flings him down hard against the table. The table collapses. The dishes fall on him. The gravy stains his suit, and his white shirt, now turned red with his own blood.

Davio, having observed the whole scene, rushes over to Mark. "Are you all right, Mr. Spaulding?" he asks, concern in his voice.

"I'm fine, Dario, just fine."

Dario turns to Warton, still on the floor. "Get out of my restaurant," he screams at him. "Get out of my restaurant and don't ever come back, you scum of the earth." He signals for his waiters, who are standing nearby. "Get this man out of here. Throw him in the gutter."

Before they can comply two men appear from the back of the restaurant, perhaps colleagues whom Warton had come here to meet, if their close-cropped heads are any clue. "We'll deal with him," one of them says.

Distastefully they lean down to retrieve Warton, who moves his elbows slightly so that the two men can get him to his feet, half carrying him, half dragging him out of the door.

Most of the diners break into spontaneous applause. "Good for you," some of them call. "Well done."

Mark reddens. He feels suddenly embarrassed. He returns to his chair and sips his coffee, and rubs his bruised hand.

This is Washington D.C. - District of Columbia - the capital of the United States of America, where the laws are made, essentially a small town, where news travels fast. In a very short time most people in Washington will have heard about the incident at Dario's. Before the day is out,it will also be common knowledge in the bedroom suburbs around  Washington. Cell phones have their uses. 

Some endorsements and comments about ON SINAI'S LOFTY MOUNTAIN

RABBI JACQUELINE TABICK, former Chairman, Council of Reform and Liberal Rabbis: "I found it very interesting - It certainly will alert readers to Jonathan Pollard's problem, but in some ways what I found even more interesting was the way in which you described the challenges, tensions, and possibilities within inter-faith marriages. It was a book that I very much wanted to read to the end."

PETER HASLER Institute of Historical Research, London University: "My word, what a tour de force, what a  blend of history and creative imagination, I little knew that you had this time bomb waiting for me. Nothing detracts from this enthralling book, which illuminates so much of the troubled history of the Middle East. I look forward to ON GALILEE'S SACRED HILL."

RT HON SIR GEORGE YOUNG, Bt, MP, former Conservative Minister of Transport, outstanding Parliamentarian and Cabinet Minister: "As your Member of Parliament, I got an insight into some of the issues raised in the book, and the ingredients should certainly make a most readable work."

RABBI PINNI DUNNER, Former Director, Jewish Spectrum Radio, Rabbi of the Sacchi Synagogue: "This book seems to have everygthing in it - memories of Vietnam - Echoes of the Holocaust - Drama from the establishment of the State of Israel - Intermarriage, even. Immigration - and much more."

COLLETTE AVITAL, former Deputy Director General of the Euroepan Desk in the Foreign Ministry, Israel: former Consul General of Israel, New York: "I was imressed by the objectivity of the writer. Mr Du Broff's efforts on behalf of the Pollards, as well as his well-earned reputation as an author,ensure that readers will enjoy this excellent novel."

LAPSED CATHOLIC OF POLISH EXTRACTION  (name withheld to protect the guilty): "Now I understand why everybody hates the Jews."

SHARON GARFINKEL, in THE JEWISH CHRONICLE: "On Sinai's Lofty Mountain paces from America to Israel, evoking many of the more controversial aspects of modern Jewish identity, among them Zionism,conversion and responses to anti-Semitism.

"The treatment of Israeli history has an authentic ring and testifies to painstaking research by Du Broff whose marriage of fact and fiction is handled soundly."

ANGELA WINNER, Essex housewife, mother of three: "The part that I enjoyed the most was at the Bar Mitzvah, at the Wailing Wall. I thought it was so true to life it brought tears to my eyes - it was very touching. I just found the whole book absolutely fantastic."

From the Office of ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: "On behalf of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, thank you for your letter and the book ON SINAI'S LOFTY MOUNTAIN by Sidney Du Broff. Considering Mr Du Broff's deep involvement and his renown as an author, this novel is no doubt well worth reading. Warmest regards from Jerusalem."

LADY VALERIE COCKS, former Director, Labour Friends of Israel: "This is not a book that any Zionist can just read and then criticize. One dives into this book and swims in it, sinks, flounders, and finishes in one piece, of one is lucky."`

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: Sidney Du Broff, American-born, London-based, is the author of numerous works, of both fiction and non-fiction, as well as hundreds of articles and stories, published in twenty-three countries. He is listed in Who's Who in the World, Contemporary Authors, Men of Achievement, Author's and Writer's Who's Who, and Who is Where. He is second-prize winner in the Golden Hedgehog International Competition for Humor and Satire. Sidney Du Broff has reported extensively on events in Europe and the Middle East, and his work is required reading at university level.