Foxes in the Vineyard

Tunisia, March 6, 1943:
Germany's Afrika Korps, short on ammunition and petrol, is on the verge of collapse.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel returns from a disastrous defeat at Medenine to learn that the long awaited
promise of resupply appears to have been answered by the arrival of twenty giant transport planes.
But the planes are empty.
Instead of bringing supplies, the Gestapo commandeers men and munitions from North Africa
for redeployment...elsewhere.

Evan Sinclair, instructor in Medieval history at Boston University, receives a telegram—
his father, Clive, is missing from his post at the Palestine Archeology Museum in Jerusalem.

Fearing for his father's well-being, Evan travels to Palestine as the British Mandate expires and the first Arab-Israeli War begins.

Evan finds his father and far more—a love he thought he had lost, and...

...covert elements of the Third Reich—Waffen SS from North Africa and Gestapo fugitives from the ruins of Berlin.

The Nazis use counter-intelligence and terror to stoke the fires of hatred and fear, driving the Jews and Arabs to war and driving the British from Palestine. Their ultimate goal...

to seize Jerusalem as the new capital of a reborn Third Reich with the Temple Mount as their fortress.
Their plan appears unstoppable.
In his struggle against them, Evan finds that he must risk everything, including his life.

In this struggle, Evan interacts with a host of historical characters
as he's caught in the cross-fire, facing betrayal and self sacrifice.
In the end...

...deep within the Temple Mount, an Upper Jerusalem emerges.
Guarded by an eternal order of Knights Templar, will this be a source of
salvation or damnation, deliverance or death?