Final Stop, Algiers
A Thriller
by Mishka Ben-David
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Pub Date Sep 05 2017 | Archive Date Aug 31 2017
Description
Internationally bestselling author Mishka Ben-David’s new thriller spans continents, as a Mossad operative must choose between duty and love.
By the author of Duet in Beirut and Forbidden Love in St. Petersburg, Final Stop, Algiers is former Israeli intelligence agent Mishka Ben-David's most exhilarating novel yet. When a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv violently disrupts his life, Mickey Simhoni abandons his plans to become an artist and instead allows himself to be recruited into the Mossad. Slowly, he learns the art of spy craft the and painstaking process of building a cover, becoming someone else whom he resembles, who is presumed dead. His cover story takes him to Toronto where he meets an old flame—Niki, a girl he had been involved with in Tokyo a decade earlier. As Mickey is torn between loyalty to the Mossad and his intense feelings for Niki, the dilemma leads to a harrowing conclusion.
About the Author: Mishka Ben-David holds an MA in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD in Hebrew literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ben-David served in the Mossad for twelve years, becoming a high-ranking officer, and he is now a full-time novelist living outside Jerusalem.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781468310221 |
| PRICE | $26.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 336 |
Featured Reviews
Librarian 36076
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.
