Stop the Americans

Lincoln Phillips

• 08 augustus 2018
• 9780692050279

Samenvatting:

An international political thriller based on a major American spy scandal of the 1980s that has never been solved:

About the Novel

Large crowds, public places: some people are in extreme danger; everyone else is perfectly safe . . .

A malfunctioning alternator on a car being used in an Israeli special operations raid leads to a violent confrontation between the intelligence services of the United States and Israel.

It is June 1992. A senior Mossad executive is asking for asylum in the United States in return for information on an Israeli intelligence source who has worked in the U.S. intelligence community. The existence of this source came to the attention of U.S. officials during the controversy over a major spy scandal of the 1980s in which a civilian intelligence analyst at the U.S. Navy was caught providing classified information to Israel. The source referred to as X was never identified. The defecting Mossad official will finally close this gap.

Unknown to the Americans, the Israeli government accidentally learns of this plan on the very morning the defection is to take place. In response, Mossad quickly assigns a team of agents to resolve the defection over a 36 hour period and keep it out of the public eye. As the crisis unfolds, a Mossad executive realizes that he will be implicated in a series of rogue actions, leading him to make erroneous assumptions, an incorrect analysis of confrontations, and to the wrong set of actions that place innocent lives in danger.

A poorly organized police engagement leads to a violent confrontation on a passenger jet over the Mediterranean; a team of Mossad agents use a masterful scheme of deceit to force the hand of a CIA intelligence officer at Cointrin Airport in Geneva; a husband and wife barely escape with their lives in Paris; and CIA security staff live through eight minutes of terror as they try to disarm a bomb at CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia.

The wife of a CIA intelligence officer and a young female U.S. Air Force co-pilot of a C-141 Starlifter save the day.

A surprise ending still does not answer every question.

As you read the novel, look for the historical parallels; do your own investigation into the actual background; enjoy the book even more!

Try to identify the themes in the story.