Book description
What if one impossible decision during a suspenseful mission shattered everything you believed about your past?
Set deep within the world of contemporary Israeli espionage, Behind the Trigger is a psychological spy thriller where covert operations collide with buried trauma, and the cost of trust is life or death.
Irit…
Why read it?
1 author picked Behind The Trigger as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved Yariv Inbar’s tale, one of the best that I have read in years.
As a Mossad officer and novelist, he brilliantly captures the intricacies and nuances of espionage in a tale involving Irit, a Mossad officer, and her protagonist Noor, the wife of a Syrian WMD expert whom Irit hopes to recruit. I enjoyed how Inbar captured the intimacy of espionage, and the different stages of its life cycle, and how such things often end tragically, with multiple sorrows and traumas.
My other favorite character was Menachem, a former Mossad officer turned psychotherapist, who advises Mossad and Irit…
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