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Inside the Middle East Crisis with a Man Who Led the Mossad
St. Martin's Press
April 2006
304 pages ISBN: 031233771X Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
Israel’s Mossad is thought by many to be one of the most
powerful intelligence agencies in the world. In Man in
the Shadows, Efraim Halevy—a Mossad officer since 1961
and its chief between 1998 and 2002—provides an
unprecedented portrait of the Middle East crisis. Having
served as the secret envoy of prime ministers Rabin, Shamir,
Netanyahu, Barak, and Sharon, Halevy was privy to many of
the top-level negotiations that determined the progress of
the region’s struggle for peace during the years when the
threat of Islamic terror became increasingly powerful.
Informed by his extraordinary access, he writes candidly
about the workings of the Mossad, the prime ministers he
served under, and the other major players on the
international stage: Yasir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Hafiz
al-Assad, Mu’amar Gadhafi, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush,
and George W. Bush. From the vantage point of a chief in
charge of a large organization, he frankly describes the
difficulty of running an intelligence agency in a time when
heads of state are immersed, as never before, in using
intelligence to protect their nations while, at the same
time, acting to protect themselves politically. Most
important, he writes fiercely and without hesitation about
how the world might achieve peace in the face of the growing
threat from Islamic terrorist organizations. In this
gripping inside look, Halevy opens his private dossier on
events past and present: the assassination attempt by the
Mossad on the life of Khaled Mashal, now the leader of
Khammas; the negotiations surrounding the Israeli-Jordan
Peace Accord and its importance for the stability of the
region; figures in the CIA, like Jim Angleton and George
Tenet, with whom he worked (Halevy even shares his feelings
about Tenet’s abrupt resignation). He tells the truth about
what the Mossad really knew before 9/11. He writes candidly
about assessing the threat of the proliferation of weapons
of mass destruction in the region and beyond, and what this
spells for the future of international stability and
survival. He touches on the increasing visibility of the CIA
in the Middle East and openly shares his misgivings about
both the report of the 9/11 Commission and the Middle East
road map to peace that was pressed on all sides of the
conflict by the U.S. government. He looks at the terrorist
attacks in Madrid and London and their far-reaching effects,
and states the unthinkable: We have yet to see the worst of
what the radical Islamic terrorists are capable of.
Sure to be one of the year’s most talked-about
books, this fierce and intelligent account of will be a
must-read for those looking to hear from a man who wielded
his influence, in the shadows, to save the Middle East and
the world from a never-ending cycle of violence and destruction.
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