The Thirteenth Hour (1996)
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Barbara Sofer's thriller, published by Dutton in 1996, is set in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Deborah Stern, an American-born researcher working on a vaccine at Hadassah Hospital, is drawn by Raphi Lahav, a Hebrew University economist and martial-arts teacher with ties to Israel's General Security Service, into going undercover at Manger College in Bethlehem, where a bomb plot against a school full of children is taking shape. (Open Library)
Watches
- Seiko (unidentified model)
- Raphi promises Deborah an alarm watch she can press if she is in trouble, and she checks her new alarm watch on arriving at Manger College. Locked into the animal house at Hadassah with gas seeping in, she remembers it: each time she presses the button of her Seiko she calls his name, and Raphi breaks in through the glass. Later, held in the old chemistry laboratory at the college, she presses the alarm twenty times and wonders where he is. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: She looked at her watch. It was nearly six. No one would come until the morning. Her shoulders sagged in weariness. For a brief moment her mind was clear. The alarm! Each time she pressed the button of her Seiko she called his name: Raphi. Raphi, Raphi. (Barbara Sofer, The Thirteenth Hour, scan cataloged as Dutton, 1996, p. 205; the alarm watch is promised on p. 152, worn on p. 155 and pressed again on pp. 296 and 298; Internet Archive scan OCR)
- Seiko (unidentified model)
- Before the rescue at Manger College, Raphi changes clothes in a medical tent and nearly forgets to take off the Seiko watch, then wonders why Deborah has not pushed her alarm if she is in trouble. The text names the maker of his watch in the same breath as her alarm but does not say how the two are linked. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: The relief he felt was wholly inappropriate, Raphi realized, as he changed clothes quickly in the medical tent. He nearly forgot to take off the Seiko watch. Why hadn't Deborah pushed the alarm if she was in trouble? (Barbara Sofer, The Thirteenth Hour, scan cataloged as Dutton, 1996, p. 289; Internet Archive scan OCR)