Title: Shadow wars
First published: 1998
Description: For Dmitri Sherbatov, the journey begins on Lake Bakail, where the Russian physicist is fishing and dreaming of a life that is about to begin. In an astonishing, perfectly plotted mission, Sherbatov is snatched from the waters of Lake Bakail and taken out of Russia to the Middle East, where he will use his genius to harness the most elusive force on earth: controlled nuclear fusion.

Part of a project that is creating gold from bismuth by bombarding it with massive amounts of energy, Sherbatov believes he is helping Israel. But within that nation a civil war is brewing, and the secret of the Negev is a secret that will rock not only the Jewish state, but the entire world economy.

American physics professor Hillsdale Landover has been chosen by the CIA to uncover the Israeli project. An innocent plunged into the wrong place at the wrong time, Landover, along with the beautiful Israeli Rachel Ravid, becomes the only witness to a plot that involves top clandestine warriors and military personnel in both Israel and the United States.

Suddenly, Landover and Ravid are on the run, caught between a U.S.-raised Palestinian terrorist, a CIA agent gone bad, and Israeli Mossad officers who shoot first and ask questions later. The faster the fugitives run, the closer they come to exposing an alliance of renegades in the top ranks of their governments, and a shifting cast of friends turned deadly enemies, and former enemies turned co-conspirators.

Shadow Wars blends cutting-edge physics with world economic balances, covert operations with political grandstanding, and a furious life-and-death struggle with a burgeoning love affair between a man and a woman from two very different backgrounds - who can trust no one but each other.
Subjects: Fiction, Physicists, Fiction, espionage, Fiction, thrillers, general, Israel, fiction, Scientists, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, thrillers, espionage
Places: Israel
LC classification: PS3556.A724 S53 1998