Here's your book about the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Lawrence Wright is a skilled writer of historical thrillers and "The Human Scale" is a whopper. Probably not the book to be reading during a tense US election season, but I could not put it down. It centers around a forced relationship between an American-Palestinian FBI agent and an Israeli cop who strive to solve the murder of an Israeli police chief who met with the American shortly before his death. The tragedy of this conflict permeates every page of the novel, the hopelessness of Israelis and Palestinians, how trapped they feel, and how much they hate the other side. The deeply human characters reminded me of Graham Greene. Not to be missed.

Many, many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.