Any course or instruction on how to write successfully will indicate that the author should write about what he knows and/or has experienced. Mishka Ben David certainly does just that. His background includes 12 years in the Mossad (the Israeli Secret Service organization.) Ben David rose to the level of a high ranking officer during his time with the group. Mickey Simhoni, an Israeli citizen had served in the army and after discharge took a vacation which included a stop in Japan. He met Niki, a beautiful Japanese Canadian girl than working in Tokyo and had a short but torrid romance with her. Before anything could happen Mickey leaves for Tel Aviv to take up his normal life. He falls in love with a girl only to see her killed in a suicide bombing. Faced with this he becomes very open to an invitation to join the Mossad.
The training and guiding of an agent is obviously the way it is due to Mishka Ben David's experience with the group. Mickey is also sent on increasingly complex missions until the point where quite by accident he meets up with Niki again. The romance is rekindled with Niki becoming a part of Mickey's Mossad team in order to be with him again. Mickey faces the challenges of his job with the problem of what is more important to him; his love or succeeding as a Mossad agent with the necessity of possibly taking lives to complete an assignment.
The dark world of international espionage becomes live for the reader with the horrible necessities of Mickey's job becoming reality for him and for those reading the book. It is very well done and concentrating on the action described does take the reader into a world very far from the one most of us live in. Certainly other similar novels will appeal if this one does.