From a back room in a small secondhand bookstore attached to their house, Mrs. Abramowitz and Mrs. Silverman control the Black Widows, a worldwide terrorist organization created with a dual purposeto destabilize the Western world and to wage a personal vendetta of their own. As soon as Zach Dayanan NYPD detective and former Israeli policemantakes the case, he faces a series of apparently random murders with identical wounds slashed in the victims chests. Desperate for answers, he seeks help from his ex-lover and expert pathologist, Dr. Jayanti Joshi. After examining the hearts, Dr. Joshi quickly discovers the common thread of the murders. Unfortunately, the clue leads nowhere.
Zachs search for the murderer leads him to the hidden caves of an impenetrable ancient desert city, where he is soon swept into the heart of an evil plot. Only time will tell if he can save the Western world from another Holocaust.
Doug Zipes is a cardiologist who has published hundreds of medical articles and many books. He is past president of the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Rhythm Society, the editor-in-chief of HeartRhythm, and the author of a health column in the Saturday Evening Post. He lives outside Indianapolis, Indiana.