Mitla Pass Author:Leon Uris The impassioned story of Gideon Zadok, a modern man trapped by his own contraditions: ambition and fear; desire and obligations; the past and his future. Woven into a tapestry of voices, Uris takes us from the pogrom-cursed Russion shtetls to the American dream from Hollywood in its heyday to the new state of Israel in 1956.