The Sam­son Ef­fect is a “first class thriller brim­ming with in­trigue and ad­ven­ture.”-​ Clive Cus­sler

Since dis­cov­er­ing an an­cient scroll in a cave in He­bron, Is­rael, Amer­i­can bib­li­cal arche­ol­o­gist Thomas Hamil­ton and his trust­ed friend and col­league, Is­raeli bib­li­cal lin­guist Michael Sieff, have been con­sumed with the no­tion of the Sam­son Ef­fect—the idea that a long-​lost elixir can al­low an or­di­nary per­son to per­form su­per­hu­man feats. When they hap­pen up­on a worn He­brew parch­ment that not on­ly con­firms the ex­is­tence of the Sam­son Ef­fect but could po­ten­tial­ly lead them to its source, the schol­ars em­bark on an im­pas­sioned cru­sade for the truth be­hind the myth.

But Hamil­ton and Sieff aren’t the on­ly ones in­tent on un­cov­er­ing the se­cret of Sam­son’s strength. An un­re­lent­ing sect of Jew­ish pro­tec­tors will let no one stand in the way of their mis­sion to re­claim what they had hid­den near­ly three thou­sand years ago, and a bril­liant but ruth­less Pales­tini­an lead­er will stop at noth­ing to find and use the Sam­son Ef­fect to em­pow­er his army of sol­diers for a ji­had against the world in the name of Al­lah.

It isn’t long be­fore their joint pur­suit be­comes a dead­ly one, and Hamil­ton and Sieff come to the grim re­al­iza­tion that the Sam­son Ef­fect is more pow­er­ful and far-​reach­ing than they ev­er an­tic­i­pat­ed. In the wrong hands, it could trig­ger a world­wide catas­tro­phe.

A chill­ing and sus­pense­ful tale of po­lit­i­cal and re­li­gious in­trigue set in the un­for­giv­ing land­scape of the Mid­dle East, The Sam­son Ef­fect wan­ders the bound­aries of ob­ses­sion and love, be­tray­al and al­le­giance, and vengeance and jus­tice.