It is very possible that Elish Ben Zaken, who defines himself as a "clerk of small human sins", is the least suitable person to investigate the circumstances of the suicide of Dr. Yehuda Menoin, a notorious philosopher. But one day the chief of the investigation division of the Yarkon Police Department entered Ben's investigation office old man and asks to hire his services. It seems to Elish that this is a trap - why do the police ask for the help of a private investigator? And why in such a seemingly simple suicide case? Elish's questions become complicated when he discovers that someone planted a piece of evidence in the police investigation file designed to draw him into the investigation, and that evidence This leads to another death case, the murder of Dalia Shoshan, a successful rock singer from Sderot, whose body was found in her apartment two months earlier. A kilometer and two days before sunset, Shimon Adaf brings us together with several arenas of Israeli existence that are well known to him: the local rock scene in its subtleties, the academic world, Mainly from the arrogant and dark side, the great city of Tel Aviv and opposite it, as in another solar system, the development towns of the Negev. Between these arenas moves his hero, Elish Ben Zaken, an enigmatic, intriguing and disturbing figure. On the one hand, Elish is gifted, at least according to the belief of his sons His family, with a deadly touch, reminiscent of the touch of King Midas . On the other hand, he has the ability, which is hinted at in his name, Elisha, to raise the dead. He is seen as the creator of the dance of death that surrounds him, and at the same time as its main victim. "Elish, who in my opinion is one of the most fascinating literary characters created in Israeli fiction, is, as his profession requires, a rational being - consistent, methodical, balanced. But his rationality is private and almost collapses. This is because his personality - and in this respect he is similar to all the other central characters in the book , which he tries to decipher - tainted by the sin of pride and the difficulty of loving and being loved; flaws that he slowly repeats and crosses and disrupts the boundaries between the intellectual and the personal." Yigal Schwartz
