Take the case of . He wasn't a saboteur with a laser watch. He was a former German soldier turned Israeli spy who posed as a wealthy, horse-breeding playboy in Egypt. His intelligence on Soviet missiles being shipped to Nasser was invaluable.
The "interesting" part? Mossad’s rule: No spy is worth a war. When Lotz was captured and sentenced to hard labor, the Mossad didn't mount a Mission: Impossible rescue. They waited. They traded captured Egyptian generals for him years later. The moral? In the Mossad, you are a soldier until the moment you become currency. Thomas dedicates significant space to the "Tick-Tock" unit—the female operatives of the Mossad. Take the case of
If you believe the Mossad is simply a team of black-clad ninjas running rooftop chases in Tehran, you’ve watched too much Fauda (which is excellent, but it’s fiction). His intelligence on Soviet missiles being shipped to
One chapter focuses on a woman codenamed In the 1970s, after the Munich massacre, Mossad launched "Operation Wrath of God" to kill the Black September terrorists. While the men were busy with car bombs, The Hammer specialized in "wet work" (assassination) using a different weapon: psychology. When Lotz was captured and sentenced to hard
She would befriend a target’s wife or mistress, gain access to the apartment, and leave a poison that looked like a heart attack. The book claims she eliminated three targets without a single witness.