Vicious Circle

An Israeli minister is assassinated in the home of his mistress. Days later, an ageing Mossad officer leads his final raid, killing a Hamas leader in his bed. Out of this familiar scenario emerges Robert Littell's most heartfelt and suspenseful novel. The action moves into the near future, when the global community, united under the leadership of a visionary female president of the Untied States, brokers a major compromise between Israel and the Palestinian authority in the hope of snuffing out the violent flashpoint that fuels the flames of global terrorism. But then, a fundamentalist Rabbi is taken hostage by Dr. al-Saath, a legendary Palestinian terrorist...