Shortly after Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, investigating attorneyDan Gordon follows the trail of one Raymond DeLouise to Germany. DeLouise has absconded with some ninety million dollars from his failed California bank, and Gordon, an indefatigable bloodhound, has been put on the case by his boss at the U.S. Department of Justice. Gordon calls on his innate shrewdness, as well as his training as a former Mossad agent, to track down white-collar criminals like DeLouise and bring them, and the stolen money, back to the U.S. But when Gordon arrives in Munich, DeLouise’s case presents an immediate and unforeseen problem. First, the man is dead. Second, he’s been murdered, execution style. But by whom? And why?In this first novel– already a best seller in Israel– attorney Haggai Carmon weaves an ingenious plot that begins as a routine investigation into fraud and money laundering and ends as something far more sinister and urgent: the byzantine, subterranean methods by which rogue states– in this case the theocracy of Iran– seek to acquire nuclear materials. If you want to understand how the CIA and theIsraeli Mossad, its foreign intelligence service work, alone and together, you’ll get no better picture than the one told in this plausible, compulsively readable thriller. If what you require is sheer entertainment with a timely context, Triple Identity delivers that, too. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.