Book 3, Chapters 14-16 Summary

The Maccabee leaders prudently split up. For his valor and forgery talents, Dov becomes Akiva's favorite and joins him, Ben Moshe and Nahum Ben Ami in Tel Aviv. Because Akiva has an enormous price on his head, lookouts are posted around the area. CID is staking out a nearby apartment, watching smugglers, when the presence of watchmen alerts them to a better target. Dov is finishing a passport, and Akiva is resting, chiding him to take time for a love life, when policemen smash down the door and take them captive. The Maccabees blame Haganah for betraying them, while the British High Commissioner demands a swift, secret trial and hanging to demoralize the split enemy. The world press takes up the prisoners' cause, Dov as a young survivor of the ghetto, Auschwitz and the Exodus drama and Akiva as...