Vicious Circle: A Novel of Mutual Distrust - Couverture rigide

Littell, Robert

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ISBN 10 : 1585678554 ISBN 13 : 9781585678556

Editeur : Overlook Books, 2006

Synopsis

Vicious Circle A well-known fundamentalist rabbi is taken hostage by a kidnapper who demands the release of several Palestinian prisoners. As Israel coaxes an aging Mossad officer out of retirement, the prisoner and captor find themselves building an extraordinary relationship. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur

An Israeli government minister is assassinated in the home of his mistress. Days later, Elihu, an aging and decorated Mossad officer, leads his final raid, killing a Hamas leader in his bed and barely escaping with his life.

Out of this familiarly cyclical scenario emerges what is perhaps Robert Littell s most heartfelt and suspenseful novel. The action moves forward into the near future, when the global community, united under the leadership of a visionary woman president of the United States, brokers a major compromise between Israel and the Palestinian authority in the hopes of snuffing out the violent flash-point that fuels the flames of global terrorism.

But then, Isaac Apflbaum, a well-known fundamentalist Rabbi, is taken hostage by Dr. al-Saath, a legendary Palestinian terrorist, who demands the release of several Palestinian prisoners in exchange for his prisoner. As Israel coaxes Elihu out of retirement to hunt down the terrorist who motivated his final mission, al-Saath and Apflbaum find themselves building an extraordinary relationship between hostage taker and hostage: parallels between these two battle-hardened partisans become the bonds that could lead to reconciliation. But with the Mossad strike team closing in, has the vicious circle already been closed.

Ferociously suspenseful and brilliantly topical, Vicious Circle is a thriller that, like The Company before it, breaks down an entire culture of violence into the corrupted consciences that embody it.

Biographie de l'auteur

Robert Littell was born, raised, and educated in New York. A former Newsweek editor specializing in Soviet affairs, he left journalism in 1970 to write fiction full time. Connoisseurs of the spy novel have elevated Robert Littell to the genre's highest ranks, and Tom Clancy wrote that “if Robert Littell didn’t invent the spy novel, he should have.” He is the author of fifteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Company and Legends, the 2005 L.A. Times Book Award for Best Thriller/Mystery. He currently lives in France.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Overlook Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1585678554
• ISBN 13: 9781585678556
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304