Tamar

"This accursed heat! This scorching wind and sand!" moaned the young warrior Hanani ben Amran as he stood atop the wall of the great King Solomon''s fortress at Tamar. "Why is it my lot to spend three years in this infernal desert? There is nothing here worth defending . . . There is no adventure, no war, no anything here!"So went Hanani''s daily complaint. Ah, but there was adventure, and plenty ...