The Human Scale

By Lawrence Wright

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

The Human Scale (2025) by Lawrence Wright is a thriller set in the West Bank. Tony Malik, a Palestinian American FBI agent, travels to Hebron for a family wedding and is briefly suspected when the city's Israeli police chief is murdered. He joins the investigation alongside Yossi Ben-Gal, a hard-line Israeli officer, and the two men, wary of each other, must learn to trust one another. The story follows their families and communities as events build toward the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

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• Stephen King: “Sometimes fiction tells truths that facts cannot. It was true of Steinbeck's THE GRAPES OF WRATH, and it's true of Larwence Wright's t heartfelt novel of the days leading up to the Hamas attack on Israel in 2023. THE HUMAN SCALE is suspenseful, hard to put down, even harder to forget.”