This riveting read by Ostrovsky details his "fall from grace" in the Mossad and his fight against the beast that the Mossad had become. His superiors get rid of Victor and his ideologically "too left" ideas by forcing him to take the fall for a mission that blew up. He ends up working against them from the outside with help from a small group of like-minded thinkers on the inside. This all culminates in the writing of this book and his "friends" turning against him after the internal power struggle was over.
By Way of Deception is the introductory book to this one since that outlines how they operate, recruite and train.
There are many nuggets of information in this book, but the following one stands out in how the Mossad did achieve it today:
By Way of Deception is the introductory book to this one since that outlines how they operate, recruite and train.
There are many nuggets of information in this book, but the following one stands out in how the Mossad did achieve it today:
An Arab world run by fundamentalists would not be a party to any negotiations with the West, thus leaving Israel again as the only democratic, rational country in the region. And if the Mossad could arrange for the Hamas (Palestinian fundamentalists) to take over the Palestinian streets from the PLO, then the picture would be complete,... (page 197)