We know the author for his verses. "Steel Fountain", "Metropolitan Psalms" and "Rose of the Times" are the bridges that have illuminated Michele Brancale, confirming his poetic capacity. Today, it is matched with narrative, with a novel whose story enters the heart of middle eastern civilization. A Turkish secret agent must investigate an attack in a Istanbul synagogue. We are at the end of the Eighties, though it seems to revive a dramatic climax of our present.