First edition. Very good or better in a Very good plus dust jacket. Book shows slight rubbing on top and bottom edges, bumped on bottom front edge. Dustwrapper shows rubbing to top and bottom edges and front and back panels, 1/4" tear at top near fold.

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Title: Code Ezra
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin & Co, Boston
Publication Date: 1986
ISBN 10: 0395364388
ISBN 13: 9780395364383
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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The murder of a scientist serving as an advisor to an Israeli intelligence agent compels Eli Katzar, head of the Ezra group, to uncover the traitor among his operatives--Charlotte, an American, Lily, a Dutch Holocaust survivor, and Aviva, a sabra

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The author of The Midwife and River of Dreams here attempts to enter the world of espionage writing, with decidedly mixed results. At the center of this somewhat unwieldy novel (supposedly based on real-life incidents) is Israeli spymaster Eli Katzar and the three women he recruits to form his "Ezra" team: Charlotte, an American princess from Scarsdale; Lily, survivor of the death camps; and Israeli-born Aviva. During a mission in France in the late 1970s, an Israeli scientist is murdered and Katzar realizes that one of the three has betrayed him. The novel alternates between Katzar's attempt to discover the turncoat with flashbacks of his own recruitment and training of the three women and the dangerous careers they survived as Israeli agents. Aside from its undue length, the book suffers chiefly from the fact that Courter telegraphs the answer to the key question far too early. 125,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild selection; author tour.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The "Ezra" group of Mossad, the Is raeli intelligence arm, has been be trayed, and Eli must find the traitor. As he reviews the files on his operatives, their histories and motivations are re vealed. Could the defector be Lily, Ho locaust survivor grown into an aloof, sophisticated woman; Aviva, tough sa bra whose lifelong byword has been sacrifice; or pampered, soft, American Charlotte, who has always been sus pected by Mossad leaders? Courter claims to have based her story on events shared by some real Israeli spies. While those events are intrigu ing, there is almost too much detail here, and the characters' motives are not entirely believable. Nevertheless, the book held this reader's attention and can be recommended as a fictional view of Israeli intelligence from the in side from 1939 to 1979. Andrea Lee Shuey, Dallas P.L.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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