Brilliant, riveting stuff - A review of Gordon Thomas’s Gideon Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad.

This book is rather a mega report made by an English journalist who had access to interview many of Mossad's former members. (Mossad is the Israeli intelligence agency that operates outside of Israel and that, I believe, is the best secret service in the world...)

The book begins with the slight participation of Mossad in the murder of Princess Diana in Paris and during this prologue and the first chapters, explains the concepts and names used in the slang of espionage. The bad thing about the book is that, since it is not a story with a true ending, each chapter uses a timeline independent of the others and the book returns again and again in the years before making it difficult to follow.

The stories and missions, although far from seeing them as adventures of James Bond, reveal a world that we are far from knowing as individuals and that rarely come to light (as a good secret service, so they have to be) but that shows that the world is full of people who do not care about the means to achieve a particular purpose and who, to this end, may be capable of a cruelty that leaves the the team that killed the 11 Israeli athletes in Munich short in terms of methods.

If you are interested in these secret spying stories, this is a book bound by its concrete way of carrying out the most complicated missions or reactions to unexpected events to prove that no one controls the way they act ... and coincidences are taken full advantage of without losing sight of the objectives.