Raising the Dead — Roger L. Simon

Moses Wine never expected he'd end up working for the Arabs. Or tracking the killer of a prominent Arab leader through the mystic shrines and menacing streets of the Holy City, Jerusalem. Now L.A.'s hippest detective will tangle with a fanatic Jewish religious leader with a decidedly unkosher past, a Southern-fried TV evangelist hell-bent on personally starting Armageddon, and a dangerously devout young activist who could be a messiah. They'll all lead Wine to expose a vast, elusive cover-up - one that could spark Middle East passions into open, devastating conflict..