The English Teacher - Atir, Yiftach Reicher

Specifikacia The English Teacher - Atir, Yiftach Reicher

For readers of John Le Carre and viewers of "Homeland," a slow-burning psychological spy-thriller by a former brigadier general of intelligence in the Israeli army After attending her father s funeral, former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears. But when she makes a cryptic phone call to her former handler, Ehud, the Mossad sends him to track her down. Finding no leads, he must retrace her career as a spy to figure out why she abandoned Mossad before she can do any damage to Israel. But he soon discovers that after living under cover for so long, an agent s assumed identity and her real one can blur, catching loyalty, love, and truth between them. In the midst of a high-risk, high-stakes investigation, Ehud begins to question whether he ever knew his agent at all. In "The English Teacher," Yiftach R. Atir drew on his own experience in intelligence to weave a psychologically nuanced thriller that explores the pressures of living under an assumed identity for months at a time. Praise for "The English Teacher" An extraordinary page turner, told with clarity, insight, and compassion, "The English Teacher" offers a rare and realistic portrait of the unrelenting sacrifices of living a double life. Gideon Raff [Yiftach R. Atir] probes how leading a double life can erode the foundations of a spy s former existence; how all of the lies are rooted in truth, and the truth, especially when it comes to love, is often coated with a patina of lies. . . . Masterful. "The Times of Israel" The book . . . does exactly what a novel of its kind should do: re-examine the Mossad. Throughout the book . . . doubts are cast on personal as well as national morality. . . . Atir seeks to pinpoint the fine line separating the moral actions that operatives perform for their country and their own exploitation. "Ha aretz""