"Vengeance" is a true story that reads like a novel. It is the
account of five ordinary Israelis, selected to vanish into "the
cold" of espionage secrecy -- their mission to hunt down and kill
the PLO terrorists responsible for the massacre of eleven Israeli
athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
This is the account of that secret mission, 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 that was shrouded in
silence and speculation for years. He reveals the long and
dangerous operation whose success was bought at a terrible cost to
the idealistic volunteer agents themselves.
"Avner" was the leader of that team, handpicked 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 systematically
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 surpass by far anything John le Carre or Robert Ludlum could
imagine, as they themselves were tracked in turn (and some killed)
by PLO assassins, changing identities constantly, moving from
country to country, devoting their young lives to the brutal task
of vengeance.
"Vengeance" is a profoundly human document, a real-life
espionage classic that plunges the reader into the shadow world of
terrorism and political murder. But it goes far beyond that, to
explore firsthand the feelings of disgust and doubt that gradually
came to torment each member of the Israeli team, and that in the
end inexorably changed their view of the mission -- and
themselves.
"Vengeance" opens a window 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.
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