This first bracing instalment of the Ehud Papers, the pungent retelling of those age-old stories from the Bible, finds our hero at the Siege of Jericho around 1600 BC. Life's not easy for a young Israelite in ancient Palestine. Your people have escaped from pyramid building in Egypt to scratching a living in the burning sands and sparse vegetation of the desert. For some, like young Ehud, it gets even worse, when...