Vengeance

_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 Carré 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.