By Way of Deception - Hardcover

Ostrovsky, Victor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773724605 ISBN 13: 9780773724600

Publisher: Stoddart+publishing, 1990

Synopsis

Hoy, Claire And Victor Ostraovsky, By Way Of Deception: A Devastating Insider's Portrait Of The Mossad

About this title

About the Author:

Victor Ostrovsky was raised in Israel, but was born in Canada. At eighteen he became the youngest officer in the Israeli military, eventually rising to the rank of lieutenant commander in charge of naval weapons testing. He was a Mossad case officer from 1984-1986.

From Library Journal:

Intelligence agencies should never try to ban books about themselves. Like Peter Wright's Spycatcher (Penguin USA, 1987), which was suppressed in Britain , this book on Israel's legendary spy organization by a former Mossad katsa or case officer has ended up on the New York Times best seller list. Among the controversial revelations that led Israel to seek a ban (which was quickly overturned in the United States and Canada) is Ostrovsky's charge that the Mossad refused to share knowledge of a planned suicide mission in Beirut, resulting in the deaths of 241 U.S. Marines in 1983. Another New York Times best seller, Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman's Every Spy a Prince ( LJ 7/90), provides more reliable details on Israel's spy network.
- Wilda Wil liams, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stoddart+publishing
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0773724605
• ISBN 13: 9780773724600
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 371