| Title : | By the rivers of Babylon | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Nelson DeMille, Author | | Publisher: | London : Time Warner | | Publication Date: | 1978 | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-7515-3123-7 | | Class number: | 813.54 | | Abstract: | Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind. Suddenly they're forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death. | | Contents note: | By the Rivers of Babylon is a 1978 novel by American author, Nelson DeMille. |
By the rivers of Babylon [printed text] / Nelson DeMille, Author . - London : Time Warner, 1978. ISBN : 978-0-7515-3123-7 | Class number: | 813.54 | | Abstract: | Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind. Suddenly they're forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death. | | Contents note: | By the Rivers of Babylon is a 1978 novel by American author, Nelson DeMille. |
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