The Reckoning
From best-selling author of Fighter Boys, a gripping true detective story into a shooting that had momentous consequences for the modern world. What happened when the lawman and the terrorist came face to face - adversaries who matched each other in determination, cunning, courage and ruthlessness? This book is the first to tell the tale.As the world plunged into global conflict, in British-governed Palestine a killing took place that shook British and Middle East politics. While in neighbouring Egypt, British forces were confronting Rommel's Afrika Korps, a series of robberies in Palestine by the militant Zionists of the Stern Gang, led by the charismatic Avraham Stern - known as 'the light' by his followers, began a war with their colonial governors. Soon they had targeted and killed policemen, initiating a huge manhunt amid Tel-Aviv's hotbed of suspicion, violence and fanaticism. Assistant Superintendent Geoffrey Morton, a middle-class Londoner who had swapped milk deliveries for the excitement and dan
https://www.xos.ro/reduceri/anticexlibris.ro/the-reckoning-1
https://www.xos.ro/@@site-logo/logo.png