Vengeance

Fülszöveg

Vengeance is a story that reads like a
novel. It is the account of five ordinary
young Israelis, selected to vanish into
"the cold" of espionage secrecy—their
mission to hunt down and kill the PLO
terrorists responsible for planning the
massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the
Munich Olympics in 1972.
This is the account of that secret mis-
sion, as related by the leader of the
group—the first Mossad agent to come
out of "deep cover" and tell the story of a
heroic endeavor which has, until now,
been shrouded in speculation, and
which turns out to have been a long and
dangerous operation whose success was
bought at a terrible cost to the idealistic
volunteer agents themselves.
"Avner" was the leader of the team,
chosen by Golda Meir to avenge the
monstrous crime of Munich. He and his
young companions, cut off from any
direct contact with Israel, set out sys-
tematically to find and kill the central
figures of the PLO's Munich operation,
tracking them down... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Vengeance is a story that reads like a
novel. It is the account of five ordinary
young Israelis, selected to vanish into
"the cold" of espionage secrecy—their
mission to hunt down and kill the PLO
terrorists responsible for planning the
massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the
Munich Olympics in 1972.
This is the account of that secret mis-
sion, as related by the leader of the
group—the first Mossad agent to come
out of "deep cover" and tell the story of a
heroic endeavor which has, until now,
been shrouded in speculation, and
which turns out to have been a long and
dangerous operation whose success was
bought at a terrible cost to the idealistic
volunteer agents themselves.
"Avner" was the leader of the team,
chosen by Golda Meir to avenge the
monstrous crime of Munich. He and his
young companions, cut off from any
direct contact with Israel, set out sys-
tematically to find and kill the central
figures of the PLO's Munich operation,
tracking them down wherever they
lived.
The mechanics, the horror, the day-
by-day suspense of what they did sur-
pass by far anything John le Carré, or
Frederick Forsyth, or Robert Ludlum
could imagine, as they themselves were
tracked in turn (and some killed) by
PLO assassins, changing identities con-
stantly, moving from country to country,
devoting their young lives to the brutal
task of—vengeance.
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Vengeance is a profoundly human
document, perhaps the most sensation-
al, headline-making book of the year,
a real-life espionage classic which
plunges the reader into the shadow
world of terrorism and political murder.
But it goes far beyond that to explore at
first hand the feelings of revulsion and
doubt which gradually came to torment
each member of the Israeli team, and
which in the end inexorably changed
their view of the mission—and
themselves.
Vengeance is a window opened sud-
denly onto a secret world, a book that at
the same time inspires and horrifies. For
its subject is an act of revenge that goes
to the very heart of the ancient biblical
questions of good and evil of right and
wrong, which ultimately remain the
deepest concerns of the Jewish people—
and which haunted and continue to
haunt "Avner" and his comrades, as they
will haunt every reader of this book
About the writer
George Jonas was born in Hungary and
emigrated to Canada in 1956. By Persons
Unknown (with Barbara Amiel), pub-
lished in 1977, became a number one
best seller in Canada and won the Edgar
Allan Poe Award for nonfiction in the
United States. Mr. Jonas lives in Toronto
and is a documentary/drama producer
for the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora-
tion. He is also the author of a novel and
three volumes of poetry. Vissza