June 4, 1967, was supposed to be a high point in Noah Greenspan's year.
It's the night before the grand opening of Potomac Centre, the urban development project he spearheaded in the heart of Washington, DC. But the outbreak of the Six-Day War in the Middle East eclipses the event.
In the aftermath of the short, bloody war, Noah's fiancée, Palestinian American journalist Alexandra Salaman is assigned to Israel to cover the political implications for Israelis and Palestinians alike. It's a dangerous task, partly because Alexandra was, years earlier, instrumental in preventing a terrorist attack and partly because she's a Christian Arab engaged to Noah, a Jew. Such a marriage is certain to arouse anger from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide.
As Noah deals with legal and financial challenges to Potomac Centre, he and Alexandra find their relationship challenged by her insistence on staying in Israel to do her job-and by reunions with old lovers.
Neither knows that a figure from Alexandra's past, the terrorist Omar Samir, plans to strike deep in the heart of the American capital. His target? Potomac Centre.
The Eden Legacy continues the story of an Arab-Jewish relationship begun in Heirs of Eden
About the Author: Successful businessman, essayist, and novelist Harold Gershowitz received the 1989 Friends of Literature Award for fiction for his first novel, Remember This Dream. His second novel, Heirs of Eden, was selected as a finalist in a national independent publishing competition in 2013. Gershowitz also coauthors Of Thee I Sing 1776, a newsletter comprising public affairs essays on major current events and issues.
Both President George H. W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton appointed Gershowitz to the governing council of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. He also received the Anti-Defamation League's Lifetime Achievement Award.
A graduate of the University of Maryland in business and public administration, Gershowitz was awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Catholic Theological Union in 2012. He and his wife, Diane, live in Palm Desert, California.
