The angel
Subtitle: the Egyptian spy who saved Israel
By: Uri Bar-Joseph ; translated from the Hebrew-language edition by David Hazony
Contributors: Hazony, David, translator
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780062420107
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Israel; Israel-Arab War, 1973; Spies; Politicians; Israel. Mosad le-modiʻin ṿe-tafḳidim meyuḥadim; Biography; Military intelligence
Work titles: Malʼakh
Description: "The first English-language book to tell the sensational story of Ashraf Marwan, a top Egyptian official who spied for the Mossad and almost singlehandedly saved Israel from defeat in the Yom Kippur War. The Angel is a gripping feat of reportage that blows open the Mossad and reveals the shocking truth behind Marwan's mysterious death"--
Notes: "Originally published as Hamal'ach in Israel in 2010, 2011 by Kinneret Zmora-Biton"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-355) and index.
Table of contents: title: The funeral and the mystery; title: Cairo, 1944-1970: beginnings; title: London, 1970: contact; title: April 1971: enter military intelligence; title: May 1971: liftoff; title: The dream of every spy agency on Earth; title: Sadat's emissary for special affairs; title: Egypt girds for war; title: Final preparations and an intermezzo in Rome; title: Signing at sundown on Saturday; title: Dovecote: warning and war; title: The rise and fall of Ashraf Marwan; title: An angel in the city, a son-in-law exposed; title: Fallen angel.