Revenge
Subtitle: A Story of Hope
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: March 26, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780684853161
Subjects: Political Science; Reference; Personal narratives, American; Rebellion And Insurgency; Women In The U.S; Biography / Autobiography; Politics/International Relations; Personal narratives, Jewish; Middle East - General; Middle East - Israel; Personal Memoirs; Current Events / International; Blumenfeld, Laura; Revenge; Arab-Israeli conflict
Description: "In 1986, Laura Blumenfeld's father was shot in Jerusalem by a member of a rebel faction of the PLO responsible for attacks on several tourists in the Old City. Her father lived, but Blumenfeld's desire for revenge haunted her. This is her story.".

"Traveling to Europe, America, and the Middle East, Blumenfeld gathers stories and methods of avengers worldwide as she plots to infiltrate the shooter's life.

Through interviews with Yitzhak Rabin's assassin; with members of the Albanian Blood Feud Committee; the chief of the Iranian judiciary; the mayor of Palermo, Sicily; an Egyptian heroin smuggler; the Israeli prime minister and the military chief of staff; priests; sports fans; fifth-grade girls; and prostitutes, among others, she explores the mechanics and the psychology of vengeance.".

"But ultimately it is a journey that leads her back home - where she is forced to confront her childhood dreams, her parents' failed marriage, and her ideas about family. In the end, her target turns out to be more complex - and in some ways more threatening - than the stereotypical terrorist she'd long imagined."--BOOK JACKET.