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A very good addition to Highlander lore | Highlander(TM): Zealot (Highlander (Warner)) | Donna Lettow

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	• Highlander(TM): Zealot (Highlander (Warner)) Donna Lettow Aspect, 1997 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 18 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The more things change the more they stay the same

This is a tie-in novel to the HIGHLANDER tv series but unlike most tie-in novels a reader does not have to be an avid fan to enjoy the novel. Anyone with just a casual familiarity with the general HIGHLANDER premise would be able to enjoy it.

The story centers around the Israeli/Palestinean conflict with flashbacks to Masada and the Warsaw Ghetto and introduces two 'new' immortals - Avram Mordecai, a young Hebrew scholar who died at Masada during the Roman occupation, and Marcus Constantine, the Roman general who found Avram and became his teacher. In the present day MacLeod, Avram, and Constantine all meet again in Paris. MacLeod has become infatuated with a Palestinean delegate to the peace talks, a relationship that causes conflict with his old friend Avram. MacLeod is forced to choose sides once again between the oppressed and the oppressors, it is just in this case it is hard to tell just who is who.

HIGHLANDER fans will also enjoy spending time at Duncan's barge and appearances by Methos.

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Just imagine...

...actually living to witness such events as the fall of Masada. This is a fascinating tale of an Immortal who has done just that. Avram is one of the Zealots! His Jewish faith motivating him to aid his people during Nazi Germany, where he crosses paths with our hero Duncan McLeod. The two of them fight side by side during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Now, imagine this man who has seen his people persecuted for some 1900 + years and try and imagine what he thinks about the turmoil between Israel and Palestine during the late 90's.

This is a very touchy subject and the author does a wonderful job of telling the story from the point of view of all sides involved. Duncan can relate to his friend because he lived through his people's persecution at the hands of the English. But has his dear friend gone too far? And, if so, what must Duncan do about it?

We also get to know another Immortal in this story - Marcus Constantine. Marcus was Avram's teacher, but Marcus wasn't a Zealot. He was on the other side of the wall at Masada.

I couldn't put the book down. This is an exceptional story and the author did a great job in telling it!

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A very good addition to Highlander lore

Though not my favorite of the spin-off novels, this is still an excellent addition to the Highlander myth. It reads very like one of the TV shows where the emphasis is more on the introduced characters and their story than on those we already know.

It also has some of the romance & sex that makes the shows with Adrian Paul so popular -- all women's fantasy date. We envy those women who get to act those scenes with him!

PS: So far, The Path is my favorite of the novels.

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Super Reader

This Highlander novel is perhaps a little more complicated, with multiple immortals. A museum caretaker, Methos, MacLeod, and an exhibition of Immortal gear. MacLeod had a sword for him, from one of the K-guys he dealt with in the past.

Both MacLeod and the museum guy, Constantine had encountered a Hebrew immortal named Mordecai in the past, and now he was back in the present.

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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.

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