This book is a prequel to the events in the Shaham series. The author lists it as the first book in his Jerusalem Spy Series which includes the Shaham adventures though the main characters do not appear each other's stories.
Anxious to reenergize his lagging career, Ari Ben-Sion agrees to take on a mission he would certainly have rejected in his younger days. He is to find a way to smuggle a group of Jewish children out of the Damascus ghetto where they currently live.