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Highlander: Zealot is the sixth official Highlander novel based on Highlander: The Series. It was written by Donna Lettow, who was writer for the series.

Immortal Marcus Constantine, the director of the Paris 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 and Duncan MacLeod, 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 had been crucified with by his Roman Master, when we was a slave, for triyng 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’ sword. Constantine also reencountered Avram ben Mordecai, an Immortal Hebrew who was his disciple after he found him in the ruins of Masada 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. Duncan and Avram were also meeting again since they fought together the Nazi armies during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in World War II. At the same time, there was being held in Paris peace negotiations for the Middle 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, 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. 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.

• 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, 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.

• Duncan Macleod
• Avram ben Mordecai
• Marcus Constantine
• Methos

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