Highlander: Zealot is the sixth official Highlander novel based on Highlander: The Series

Highlander: The Series

Highlander: The Series is a fantasy-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the Highlander. It was an offshoot and another alternate sequel of the 1986 feature film with a twist: Connor MacLeod did not win the prize and Immortals still exist post-1985...

. It was written by Donna Lettow, who was a junior member of the writing team for the series.

Plot summary

Immortal

Immortal (Highlander)

Immortals are a group of fictional characters seen in the movies and series of the Highlander franchise. Since they are immune to disease and stop aging after becoming Immortal, they can live forever and they only die when they are beheaded....

 Marcus Constantine, the director of the Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 Museum of Antiquities, was preparing an exposition about the people which were assimilated by the Romans. Little before the inauguration, he invited his Immortal friends, Methos

Methos

Methos is a fictional character from the Highlander universe - the film series, the television show Highlander: The Series, and several fiction books. He is an Immortal. He is portrayed by actor Peter Wingfield in both series and the movies. Methos, as one of the The Four Horsemen, represents...

 and Duncan MacLeod

Duncan MacLeod

Duncan MacLeod is a fictional character from the Highlander multiverse. Duncan MacLeod serves as the protagonist for the TV continuation of the Highlander franchise, which comprises Highlander: The Series and its spin-off movies, Highlander: Endgame and Highlander: The Source...

, for a small visit to his museum. They admired objects provided by Immortals or that had belonged to deceased ones: there were exposed, for example, Ceirdwyn’s superb Celtic ornaments, Nefertiri’s funerary room, a nail which Methos

Methos

Methos is a fictional character from the Highlander universe - the film series, the television show Highlander: The Series, and several fiction books. He is an Immortal. He is portrayed by actor Peter Wingfield in both series and the movies. Methos, as one of the The Four Horsemen, represents...

 had been crucified with by his Roman Master, when we was a slave, for trying to seduce his wife (Constantine freed him) or an attractive fragment of a Jewish Torah. The favor that Constantine awaited from MacLeod was that this one provided him Paul Karros’s sword. Constantine also reencountered Avram ben Mordecai, an Immortal Hebrew who was his disciple after he found him in the ruins of Masada

Masada

Masada is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the South District of Israel, on top of an isolated rock plateau, or horst, on the eastern edge of the Judean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea. Masada is best known for the violence that occurred there in the first century CE...

 at the time the city’s conquest by the Roman armies which he commanded. Mordecai was then a young Immortal, who was unaware of that. Thus, Constantine taught him the rules of Immortals by taking him under his protection on his return to Rome

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

. Duncan and Avram were also meeting again since they fought together the Nazi armies during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp....

 in World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. At the same time, there was being held in Paris peace negotiations for the Middle East

Middle East

The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...

. Duncan met the Palestinian negotiator, Dr. Maral Amani, with whom he befriended. Duncan and Avram had an argument about Duncan’s relation with the Palestinian. Since the fall of Masada, Mordecai had sworn to always protect its people and he wanted to ruin the negotiations. In the Occupied Territories

Israeli-occupied territories

The Israeli-occupied territories are the territories which have been designated as occupied territory by the United Nations and other international organizations, governments and others to refer to the territory seized by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967 from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria...

, he had slaughtered forty-three Arabs who were praying in a mosque, claimed the attack in the name of a Jewish integrationist organization. In Tel-Aviv, he exploded a bus with Israeli soldiers and claimed the attack in the name of the Hamas

Hamas

Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades...

. He tried to assassinate Maral, but failed. When Constantine and Duncan understood the dangerous game Avram was playing, they decided to stop him. Mordecai, then, became paranoid, believing that they had betrayed the Jewish cause. He killed Constantine and attacked Duncan. In the end, Duncan killed Mordecai.

Flashbacks

• Masada: In 73, after three long years, the Roman armies of Constantine were about to attack the city of Masada. Its inhabitants, unable to resist, decided to sacrifice themselves. Avram Mordecai killed his wife and her father. When the Romans penetrated the city all the inhabitants had died except Mordecai who was unaware of his immortality. It had been in fact his first death.

• Warsaw: In January 1943, Duncan, a member of the French Resistance
  French Resistance
  The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...
  
  , came to Warsaw in order to take Rebbe Mendelsohn from the ghetto. When German soldiers arrived, Duncan masked himself as Mendelsohn and took his place but a resistant group from the ghetto intervened. One of them was Immortal Avram Ben Mordecai. MacLeod managed to join the resistance but promised Mordecai he would return to help him save the Jews of the ghetto. MacLeod returned to the Warsaw ghetto in April 1943 to seek Mendelsohn once more. He became a liaison officer between the resistance and the Jews which were about to begin their uprising. MacLeod returned during the ghetto uprising in May 1943. He fought the Germans under Mordecai’s command. The uprising was a failure and many Jews died. At that moment, Mordecai reinforced his resolution to protect the Jews from the whole world.

Characters

• Duncan MacLeod
  Duncan MacLeod
  Duncan MacLeod is a fictional character from the Highlander multiverse. Duncan MacLeod serves as the protagonist for the TV continuation of the Highlander franchise, which comprises Highlander: The Series and its spin-off movies, Highlander: Endgame and Highlander: The Source...
  
  
• Marcus Constantine
• Methos
  Methos
  Methos is a fictional character from the Highlander universe - the film series, the television show Highlander: The Series, and several fiction books. He is an Immortal. He is portrayed by actor Peter Wingfield in both series and the movies. Methos, as one of the The Four Horsemen, represents...
  
  
• Avram ben Mordecai