- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (30 Mar 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0297848313
- ISBN-13: 978-0297848318
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 899,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'provides insight into an anti-heroic time in [Halevy's] country's existence... revealing passages about the attitude towards Yassir Arafat.' (THE TIMES )
'fascinating insight of what it is like to deal with the intriguing array of characters... of the modern Middle East.' (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
'There are some darkly amusing vignettes... Halevy is enjoyably sharp on the EU's obsession with Israel/Palestine... his material on Jordan is particularly insightful... This is an important book.' (JEWISH CHRONICLE )
'fascinating insight of what it is like to deal with the intriguing array of characters... of the modern Middle East.' (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
'There are some darkly amusing vignettes... Halevy is enjoyably sharp on the EU's obsession with Israel/Palestine... his material on Jordan is particularly insightful... This is an important book.' (JEWISH CHRONICLE )
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'fascinating insight of what it is like to deal with the intriguing array of characters... of the modern Middle East.'
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Don't go in here expecting an explosive blow by blow account of life in the Mossad - scant coverage is given over to the Israeli's agency's many truiumphs in the dirtiest of dirty wars. What we get instead is a detailed account of the backroom deals that made up the tortuous Arab-Israeli peace process. Although occasionally dull, there are enough intriguing nuggets here to compel the reader's attention, most especially in the author's vivid thumbnail portraits of the key figures in the region's tortuous history.
A valuable account of the Middle East peace process, but the author is more skilled diplomat than lethal secret operative.
A valuable account of the Middle East peace process, but the author is more skilled diplomat than lethal secret operative.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I thought that this is a relatively well written book albeit somewhat repetitive at times and, as mentioned in another review, not quite the look inside Mossad as you might expect. The majority of this book centers around the author's take on the various powers in the region and, of course, the various prime ministers that he had to deal with during his time in the Mossad - but if you're looking for lots of examples as to his time as head of the Mossad, look elsewhere as whilst there are a few good stories (the Mashaal affair being one of them), the book does ramble occasionally. Still, I was pleased that I had read this.
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