The Gordian Knot: A Novel

Mystery, deceit adventure!Yair Weinstock has out done himself! Very hard to put this book down once you star to read it! Enjoy!

Exciting but not terrifying. Not difficult to follow the many characters, as books spanning several generations often are.

This book was slow to start, but it got exciting as I read along. I felt that the book has a universal theme that everyone will learn from as well as enjoying the contents. This book takes you through five generations of a family over the span of 100 years. The Gordian Knot gives you a snapshot into life in the past as well as giving you a view of the current situation in Israel. A must read.

There are books for reading once, and there are books for keeping forever, reading over and over, serving as an everlasting source of inspiration. This book is in the "read once" category. The only reason you keep reading this book is because you want to find out what happens next. Once you know the plot, you have exhausted the book's potential. There is something very evil and sinister about all of Weinstock's books. Each book of his that I read gave me a creepy feeling which has to this day not quite faded. All the characters, even the "heroes", are sly, manipulative and cunning. No one is honest, trustworthy, or straightforward. The plots are breathtaking, that I will admit. This is a great book to borrow from the library and then return once you are done with it. Or borrow a friend's copy. There's no way I would buy such a book to keep it in my home. There is absolutely nothing meaningful in the book that makes me interested in re-reading it. I really wish that Weinstock would have softened his plots and characters somewhat to make them more human.

I think the Gordian Knot is an amaizing book which I will certanly read again. It was definatly worth every penny I saved to buy it! It is a very spine chilling book. Also I would like to comment on the excellent vocabulary that is used. The way it is written and the way it suddenly stops and has ... makes you carry on reading it, which is why I finished reading it in about 1 day!! So I think everyone should buy this book, and will be kept busy for a while! AND ENJOY!!Rochel Beenstock (13)

I enjoy reading suspense stories by such authors as Ludlum, Greene, Clancy, and Forsyth and have, lately, emersed myself in books about Judaism. This novel is a creative attempt to combine the two in an entertaining way. The characters are interesting and well developed, albeit somewhat unevenly. My only criticism of this book is its ending - it is superficial and not very well thought out. A different ending, e.g., the development of an antidote to foil the plot of the villians, would have been more consistent with the storyline