Another Time/ Another Land

Ensign S. Paul Miner, a Jewish naval offi cer, handles court-martial cases at theU.S. base in Morocco during his two-year assignment there. His legal ability issharply tested when he defends an Offi cer accused of a homosexual assault againstan infl uential Arab aide to the monarchy who is visiting the base to decide if theNavy will get a ten-year extension of its lease. Prior to his involvement in the trial,Miner, whose hidden fi rst name is Saul, comes across Sephardic Jews whoseancestors dwelled in Morocco for most of the last 2,000 years. In the face of theirhelping restore his Jewish identity and pride, he nonetheless meets and falls inlove with a married, Russian Orthodox woman of the aristocratic class whosefamily fl ed St. Petersburg in 1917 and ultimately settled in Tangier to make a newlife for themselves.