Authors: Gordon Thomas
ISBN-13: 9780312539016, ISBN-10: 0312539010
Format: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: March 2009
Edition: Fifth Edition
Gordan Thomas is a bestselling author of forty books published worldwide, a number dealing with the intelligence world. His awards include the Citizens Commission for Human Rights Lifetime Achievement Award for Investigative Journalism, the Mark Twain Society Award for Reporting Excellence, and an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Investigation. He lives in Ireland.
The untold story of one the the world's most powerful and mysterious intelligence organizations.
...[C]ontains many eye-popping claims....If conspiracist tracts of this nature cannot be entirely discredited, it is nevertheless of critical importance that they be exposed and denounced. At the very least, one can thereby hope to minimize the damage they are likely to do.
Mossad Directors General
Glossary
Brief Arabic Glossary
Other Intelligence Services
1 Beyond the Looking Glass 1
2 Before the Beginning 31
3 Engravings of Glilot 53
4 The Spy in the Iron Mask 73
5 Gideon's Nuclear Sword 89
6 Avengers 109
7 The Gentleman Spy 135
8 Ora and the Monster 157
9 Slush Money, Sex, and Lies 173
10 A Dangerous Liaison 191
11 Unholy Alliances 211
12 Blessed Are the Spymasters 229
13 African Connections 245
14 The Chambermaid's Bomb 259
15 The Expendable Cartoonist 277
16 Spies in the Sand 303
17 Bunglegate 325
18 New Beginnings 349
19 After Saddam 373
20 God's Banker, Whistleblower, and Osama Bin Laden 405
21 A New Caliphate of Terror 435
22 Old Enemies, New Threats 459
23 The Pakistani Nuclear Black Marketeer 483
24 Web of Terror 503
25 Confronting the Dragon 525
26 Miscalculations 559
27 A Secret Channel and Hezbollah Rockets 585
28 Fighting the Fires of Satan 607
29 For the Moment 641
30 A Personal Note 669
Notes on Sources 675
Select Bibliography 681
Index 685