Stendal Raid — Al Dempsey

War makes strange bedfellows.

Hajj Amin al-Husseini, Great Mufti of Jerusalem, had to die, even if it meant a collaboration between the British and the Zionist freedom-fighters they had been battling through-out Palestine.

But Hajj Amin was under Hitler's protection, secreted away at Fortress Stendah, in Germany, where the Nazis were trying to convince the religious leader to declare jihad, a religious war. It was the fear that Hitler would succeed that made the Grand Mufti a prime target.

With the timetable tension of The Day of the Jackal, The Stendal Raid moves toward the final confrontation. Hanging in the balance are two uneasy alliances -- and the fate of Palestine.

The Stendal Raid is a work of fiction based on an actual event which occurred in the spring of 1942. A raid was conceived by Allied politicians, planned by the British military and carried out by a cadre of Palestinian Jews.