First century private detective Jake Jezreel is drawn into a mysterious case involving a rare black jewel.  The case begins rather simply with a request by James, the head of the Jerusalem church, to locate a missing fellow minister in the church.  This puzzling disappearance has the entire Christian church in Jerusalem concerned and praying for their missing pastor.  Soon, the investigation for the missing person diverts Jake into a more elaborate course, that of trailing after a jewel known as The Black Diamond.  Detective Jake Jezreel had never heard of The Black Diamond.  And yet this mys-terious object will plunge him and his wife, Hannah, into an adventurous investigation like he had never experienced before.  What kind of power did this lustrous, gorgeous diamond have over men?  How could it make men hate and attack each other to own it?  Will Jake be drawn into the powerful, magnetic influence this black beauty possesses?  Only a nerve-racking climax at the Hip-podrome in Caesarea can bring the answers Jake is searching for.