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"As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad's number-one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing 200 tons of uranium. The world?s balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, KGB, Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is nuclear holocaust" --Amazon.com.
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Publisher:
New York, New York : A Signet book, [2015]
Copyright Date:
♭1979
ISBN:
9780698406292
069840629X
069840629X
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1 online resource
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Add a Summary"It was never determined what had actually happened to the 200 tons of uranium", but three countries know the truth. Three young men met decades ago and now world events have cast them as adversaries. Nat, Israel's hero, known as 'The Pirate', stages a daring nuclear exploit. Breathing down his neck, the KGB's Rostov and Egyptian intelligence's Yassif. A furious race against time builds to an extraordinary climax on a doomed cargo boat.
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Add a CommentA typical Ken Follett geographical thriller, this time with an Israeli operative who attempts to smuggle uranum so that Israel could build atomic bombs.