Righteous Kill (Paperback or Softback)

‘A MIX BETWEEN EARLY TOM CLANCY, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS AND MOSSAD'S OPERATION WRATH OF GOD... A JOY TO READ' ★★★★★

October 1940: a contingent of Israeli special forces soldiers armed with 21st century weaponry materializes in German-occupied France. These elite special operators have been sent over eighty years into the past by a genius physicist who cracked the secret of time travel.

Their mission is to ambush Adolf Hitler’s personal train as it passes through the French countryside, thereby preventing the Holocaust and shortening the war.

The ideology of the Third Reich preaches that Jews are an inferior race. Lieutenant Colonel Yossi Klein and his team of Israeli special ops soldiers are about to teach the Nazis how wrong they are.

Why readers love RIGHTEOUS KILL:

‘A rollicking page-turner that I'll probably go back to and read again in a month or two. The author clearly knows the military in an expert way’ ★★★★★

'Suspenseful and action-packed' The Jerusalem Post

‘One of the most gripping reads I’ve had in a long time, should be made into a film. I’d pay twice to see it’ ★★★★★

‘Majestic storytelling – a tour de force. The research is phenomenal, the plotting across dual-timelines seamless, and the multilingual writing sublime. A dazzling début novel’ John Templeton Smith ★★★★★

‘It was nearly impossible to put this book down… I wish I had written it’ ★★★★★

‘A remarkable alternative history thriller… the author demonstrates a mastery of technical military and historical background’ ★★★★★

‘Great read, I loved it from start to finish’ ★★★★★

‘Utterly engrossing and the story unfolds at a cracking pace. Lapkin’s writing style gives the reader an in-depth insight into the characters and the events they are involved in – in fact, it feels like you are part of the action’ ★★★★★

‘Extremely well written… wonderful summer read/page turner. Couldn’t put it down’ ★★★★★

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Ted Lapkin spent the first half of his childhood in North Carolina before his Jewish family moved to Israel. He saw active service as a combat intelligence officer in the Golani Infantry Brigade, fighting with the brigade’s elite recon company during the battle for the Beaufort Castle.

Graduating summa cum laude from Tel Aviv University, Ted returned to the United States for postgraduate study and began to work in politics as a communications/government-relations strategist. While in Washington D.C., he met an Australian woman whom he later married. Moving to Melbourne, he began a PHD (never finished) and began to write political opinion columns for Australian newspapers. Since then, he has written for many publications, including the Spectator, LA Times and Sydney Morning Herald, as well as speeches for members of the US Congress and Australian Government Cabinet Ministers. He now runs his own consulting firm that advises clients on strategic communications, reputation management and government relations.

Ted lives with his wife Sharon in the Melbourne inner suburb of Fitzroy, described by London’s Daily Telegraph as one of “the world’s most ‘hipster’ neighbourhoods.”RIGHTEOUS KILL is his first novel.