The Volunteer

In 1982, Michael Ross joined the legions of North American twenty-somethings backpacking in Europe. When his money ran out, he wound up working on a kibbutz in Israel, where he fell in love with the land and its multi-layered history. He immersed himself in Israeli culture, converted to Judaism, married a Sabra, and adopted Israel's struggle for survival as his own. He joined the Israel Defence Force and was then recruited for the Mossad's most elite and storied covert-operations unit, Caesaria. For seven-and-a-half years, Ross worked as a top-level undercover agent, operating in many political hotbed areas in the world. In "The Volunteer", he describes his role in the capture of the three senior al Qaeda operatives who masterminded the 1998 attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, a joint Mossad-FBI operation that uncovered a senior Hezbollah terrorist based in the United States. Ross also tells of his participation in missions to foil attempts by Syria, Libya, and Iran to acquire advanced weapons technology, and of a mission to South Africa in which he intercepted Iranian agents seeking to expand their country's military arsenal. Perhaps, most intriguing are his stories about his two-and-a-half years as the Mossad's Counterterrorism Liason Officer to the CIA and FBI. Many of the operations, Ross describes, have never before been revealed to the public.

ISBN 1905745192   DEWEY 327.12092 ISBN13 9781905745197 (What's this?)   DEWEY edition DC22 Publisher VISION Paperbacks   Pages 288 Imprint Vision   Volumes 1 Format Hardback   Published in London Publication date 02 Aug 2007   Academic level General

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