Man In The Shadows

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From Operation Desert Storm to the beginning of US incursions into Iraq Efraim Halevy was Deputy Director & then Director of Israels Mossad arguably the most developed & sometimes ruthless intelligence service in the world. MAN IN THE SHADOWS is Halevys memoir of that period from his vantage point inside the Mossad as well as a look at what lies ahead for a world transformed by Islamic terrorism. Having served as the secret envoy to Prime Ministers Rabin Shamir Netanyahu Barak & Sharon Halevy was privy to & collector of some of the most sensitive information coming out of the region. Beginning with a prologue that describes a visit he made to Jordan in 1993 Halevy looks back to Desert Storm an event he calls an epic of unfinished business & brings the reader up to the present day through 9/11 & the WMD crisis in Iraq. Informed by his extraordinary access from the beginning of his Mossad career in 1961 he writes frankly of the Israeli PMs he worked under as well as most of the other major players in the region & around the world: Yasir Arafat Saddam Hussein Hafez Assad Hosni Mubaraq Crown Prince Abdullah Muamar Qadaffi Presidents Clinton & Bush as well as former CIA director George Tenet & counter-intelligence chief James Angleton. Though Halevy looks to the past he also looks to the future & talks bluntly about how the world might achieve peace in the region & elsewhere. Much of what he has to say will surprise & shock even those readers well versed in the complexities of the region.