Deception point is a mystery and suspense thriller that combines indepth knowledge of classified intelligence with hightech weaponry and presidential politics in a very fastpaced, suspenseful novel. Because at some point the honey pot will become a honeycauldron so we can melt down all the pedos and pour their slag into an ingot and drop that into the fire of mt doom. This book tells what should have been known and isntthat israels hidden force is as formidable as its recognized physical strength. New book insists wtc a mossad operation american free press. From an official israeli point of view, the mossad has an important job to do. According to court papers filed by the israeli government in an attempt to stop the publication of his book by way of deception, ostrovsky was recruited by the mossad in 1982 and trained as a katsa case officer at the mossads training school north of tel aviv. James fetzer and a half dozen other contributors appears to have solved the problem of what exactly happened on that infamous sept. By way of deception, told to claire hoy by former mossad agent victor ostrovsky, chronicles not only ostrovskys four years in training as an agent for israels elite intelligence agency, but also a variety of related activities occurring both within israel and throughout the world. I believe at some point, they stopped asking permission. The making and unmaking of a mossad officer is a nonfiction book by a former katsa case officer in the mossad, victor ostrovsky, and canadian journalist and author claire hoy.
The strange case of a nazi who became an israeli hitman. Hardly a big fish and hardly worth it, even from the israeli point of view. Earlier this month, for the first time, a foreign state sued in a u. At issue was an expose of the mossad, israels intelligence service, by an former. The book recounts some of the great successes and failures of the secret israeli agency. Mossad is responsible for intelligence collection, covert operations, and counterterrorism. The greatest missions of the israeli secret service book online at best prices in india on. Mossads first whistlebloweror betrayer, depending on your point of view.
Deception point dan brown read books online free without. It contains a bibliography of newspaper articles in support of original book. They are israeli intelligence, counterterrorism, elite trained covert operatives. This book is very critical of the mossad and victor ostrovsky is considered a criminal in israel.
For a variety of reasons, some alarming, others somewhat selfserving, ostrovsky fell out with his employer and. In book 4 of mark greaneys gray man series, dead eye, mossad and the cia partner to capture the worlds most feared and lethal rogue former black ops agent courtland gentry. The other side of deception book by victor ostrovsky. The other side of deception is a followup to the bestselling nonfiction book by way of deception by victor ostrovsky, a former mossad agent with operational knowledge. Jun 16, 2019 by way of deception by victor ostrovsky is a fascinating book about the authors years in the mossad, the israeli intelligence service. Dan brown is the bestselling author of digital fortress, deception point, angels and demons, the da vinci code, the lost symbol and most recently, inferno. The book tells of the authors recruitment, training and brief career in the mossad.
Buy a cheap copy of deception point book by dan brown. The author devoted six years of research to the project, which was based upon a thousand personal interviews and access to an enormous number of official documents previously unavailable. From that point on, mossad armed, trained, and equipped both sides. Neither mark zuckerberg nor the mossad complained about my claim.
The greatest missions of the israeli secret service. In jeffrey archers novel honour among thieves 1993, the lead female protagonist is a mossad agent. How a mossad agent and a band of survivors hunted down the butcher of latvia. Deception point by dan brown and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Dontzin to issue the injunction, preventing the publication and distribution of by way of deception. By way of deception describes the shocking scope and depth of the mossad s influence, disclosing how jewish communities in the u. When a new nasa satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a muchneeded victory. A jon cantrell thriller book 1 audiobook part 1 duration. Full text of mossad the greatest missions of the israeli. How israels mossad used a fake diving resort to save a. Victor john ostrovsky born november 28, 1949 is an author and a former katsa case officer for the israeli mossad. He is a graduate of amherst college and phillips exeter academy, where he spent time as an english teacher before turning his efforts to writing fulltime. Deception point by brown dan at the best online ebook storage.
A provocative new book, titled america nuked on 911. Readers will encounter cyclic quadrilaterals, power of a point, homothety, and. For decades, israels renowned security arm, the mossad, has been widely recognized as the best intelligence service in the world. Without a word said, four of the men entered the van and headed for the city. The title of the book is what ostrovsky alleges to be the english translation of the former motto of the mossad, a phrase from proverbs but none of this explains why mossad would put tens of thousands of americans presumably many of them jews at risk. Needless to say, the israeli lobby has demanded and gotten a total ban on this book in all major bookstore chains, while proisraeli experts have trashed it at every opportunity. This document is possibly the most important and controversial book of its kind since. The making of a mossad officer by victor ostrovsky isbn. Book should be retitled technical specifications of the boeing 314.
This is an extract from the book by way of deception by victor ostrovsky and claire hoy. The chris evans film red sea diving resort tells how, in the famine era of we are the world, the mossad used a fake diving resort to save ethiopian jews. Victor ostrovsky, an exmossad officer, reveals how they conduct their operations in this telling video. It is one of the main entities in the israeli intelligence community, along with aman military intelligence and shin bet internal security. It is an excellent collection of case works and narration mossads activities. Israels mossad bloody trail of assassinations should. Which is the problem with intelligence operations, even for mossad. The book is divided into twenty two distinct chapters, each one a story of. Since the tamil forces are smaller than the sri lankan army, the ziomedia calls the tamils terrorists. Uzi arad, a mossad veteran and a former nationalsecurity adviser for netanyahu, said that he was ashamed to see some of his former colleagues become mercenaries for hire, adding, its.
The title comes from the mossad motto, by way of deception, thou shalt do war. As a novel it was pretty terrible with, as others have said, dreary cardboard characters. By way of deception by victor ostrovsky is a fascinating book about the authors years in the mossad, the israeli intelligence service. You ask this question as though they have never gotten their fingers burnt trying in the past. Struggling to rebound from a series of embarrassing blunders that have jeopardized its political life at the start of this lively thriller, nasa makes an astounding discovery. There are many plot twists and surprises throughout the story, and a wealth of interesting characters. The book has sold some 500,000 copies, its authors have been interviewed around the world, and its messageisrael is evil and no friend of americahas spread. In the world of pageturning thrillers, dan brown holds a special place in the hearts of many of us. Most of the scenarios in the art of deception work just as. Buy a cheap copy of the other side of deception book by victor ostrovsky. Written by an exmossad agent, the book covers his own training as an agent, as well as a series of mossad operations.
Mossad is separate from israels democratic institutions. Ostrovskys book is available only online at places like amazon revealing the facts as i know them from my vantage point of four years spent inside the mossad was by no means an easy task. Why is the official motto of israeli mossad by way of. It was the first and, to date, only attempt of a sovereign state to stop a book from being published in the united states. He left israels secret police agency and returned to.
The book concerns the concept of a mossad divide and conquer strategy, pitting secular arabs against islamist arabs and between arab. The book is very useful for all those who want to know about the world. Buy mossad book online at low prices in india mossad. Mossad behind sri lanka bloodbath and the assassination of. Most of the writing seemed to have no purpose other than to extend the weight rather the quality of the book. The motto of israels spy agency, mossad, is, according to recently defected mossad agent victor ostrovsky. The book is nice, nothing special and by far the worst of his books. It is engraved with hundreds of names, and there is space for hundreds more, if necessary, to be carved with pride for agents sent to carry out the mossad motto.
Otto skorzeny, one of the mossads most valuable assets, was a former lieutenant colonel in nazi germanys waffenss and one of adolf hitlers favorites. He authored two nonfiction books about his service with the mossad. A bumbling mossad hand suspected in dubai assassination. The only certainty is that brown, within the space of a. Ostrovsky argued their point to be moot, as they themselves are outsiders and that the only information about the. Does mossad have the capability to topple or assassinate. These and other stunning details combine to give gideons spies the sense of urgency and relevance that is characteristic of truly engrossing nonfiction. They are charged with the protection of the people of israel and safe passage when nee. Exmossad officer reveals how they operate renegade tribune. The elaborate assassination of a hamas official last month in dubai has all the earmarks of a mossad operation and was likely sanctioned by prime minister binyamin netanyahu, says a former case. Victor john ostrovsky born november 28, 1949 is an author and a former katsa case officer for the israeli mossad foreign intelligence service. Mar 11, 2014 and the only gain from a major operation was the killing of a midlevel hamas official who may or may not have been in dubai to arrange to buy weapons from iran. Thats how ostrovsky, whose first book about life within the mossad was by way of deception, begins his second book, the other side of deception.
He then wrote a book called by way of deception, which became a new york times bestseller in 1990. The making of a mossad officer from the worlds largest community of readers. Brown, in deception point, once again demonstrates that he is quite the craftsman, displaying a knack for character sleightofhand while always playing fair with his audience. That motto describes more than the modus operandi of the worlds most ruthless and feared organization of professional assassins and espionage agents. Download and read online for free deception point by brown dan. At one point, mossad was simultaneously training special forces contingents from all three of these three mutuallyhostile forces at the same time and in the same facility, so that they nearly encountered each other, which surely would have produced a huge diplomatic black eye for israel. Dan brown deception point deception point by dan brown acknowledgments with warm thanks to jason kaufman for his superb guidance and insightful editorial skills.
Ostrovskys mother, a gymnastics teacher by trade, was born in mandatory palestine to. Victor is an ex mossad spy who has decided to reveal some of the methods that. It was during yeltsins violent crackdown on protesters that mossad snipers sat atop the crowne plaza hotel taking out pedestrians on. The author and his coconspirators set out to discredit the mossadasis by revealing its dirty tricks to the intelligence services of other nations, and to replace it with something less repulsive. Lawyers for israel convinced manhattan supreme court justice michael j.
An introduction to mossad s new director, tamir pardo. The book has sold some 500,000 copies, its authors have been interviewed around the world, and its messageisrael. But it got to the point where they were handmedowns. Deception of browns plot point if you are interested in a book that will keep you up late at night struggling to keep you eyelids elevated, deception point is your oasis. The greatest missions of the israeli secret service by michael barzohar and nissim mishal is a nonfictionbook by israeli journalists michael barzohar and nissim mishal. I have been working as a translator and lingual editor for over 10 years now and i have seen many cases where texts were translated in a manipulative way to reflect the position of a certain person or party, taking the translated text far away fro. Because unlike other memoirs by former mossad agents, by way of deception is the personal narrative of a disgruntled former katsa case officer, one who left the service under a cloud, with bones to pick and unafraid to name names. He is also an author who wrote two nonfiction books about his service with the mossad.
Three of his robert langdon novels have been adapted for the screen by ron howard, starring tom hanks. My favourites are the gideons spies by gordon thomas mossad by michael barzohar no mission is impossible by michael ba. The motto of israels foreign intelligence service the mossad translates as by way of deception you shall make war, and one might modify that a bit to claim that by way of deception you can sell books. Deception point is a mystery and suspense thriller that combines indepth knowledge of classified intelligence with high tech weaponry and presidential politics in a very fastpaced, suspenseful novel. This inside view of israeli intelligence written by a disabused mossad colonel. The truth about the mossad world news the guardian. Recalling the infamous ostrovsky affair, another mossad officer of canadian origin has now published a book about his secret service career without receiving authorization from the organization.
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Thomass book has only one glaring weaknessits obvious omission of any investigation or reference to the rumors of strong intelligence connections between the mossad and some of american protestant evangelicalisms leading lights, who have served to evangelize their faithful in the gospel of incessant support for the modern state of israel. In 1991 victor ostrovsky, author of by way of deception, told indian abroad news service that mossad brought many tamils to israel for training in 1984 and 1985. Mar 22, 2020 at one point, mossad was simultaneously training special forces contingents from all three of these three mutuallyhostile forces at the same time and in the same facility, so that they nearly encountered each other, which surely would have produced a huge diplomatic black eye for israel. Mar 09, 2016 the book talks about the incredible stories full of action right from the capture of nazi assassin adolph eichmann to the recent removal of key iranian nuclear scientists. Coming from an ardent zionist background, i had been taught that the state of israel was incapable of misconduct.
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