Triple
New York: New American Library, 1980. First Signet Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. [8], 343, [1] pages. Item is somewhat curved. Cover has some wear and soiling. Kenneth Martin Follett, CBE, FRSL (born 5 June 1949) is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 160 million copies of his works. Many of his books have achieved high ranking on best seller lists. For example, in the USA, many reached the number 1 position on the New York Times Best Seller list, including Triple, Edge of Eternity, Fall of Giants, A Dangerous Fortune, The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Winter of the World, and World Without End. The 1978 publication of Eye of the Needle, which became an international bestseller and sold over 10 million copies, made him both wealthy and internationally famous. Follett's archival papers are housed at the Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan United States. Papers include outlines, drafts, notes and correspondence, original manuscripts. The background of the plot is Operation Plumbat, a 1968 operation carried out by Mossad that did not become publicly known about until 1977. The book's prologue describes a chance meeting of several people in Oxford in the year 1947. The main character is Nathaniel "Nat" Dickstein, a victim of experimentation in the Nazi concentration camps who later becomes an Israeli agent; also the American Alan "Al" Cortone, of Italian origin, whose life Dickstein saved in Sicily; and the Russian chessmaster David Rostov, who subsequently joins the KGB. Mossad finds out in 1968 that Egypt is building a nuclear reactor in the Western Desert, in order to produce an atom bomb. Mossad assigns its best agent, Nat Dickstein, to steal about two hundred tons of uranium ore for Israel, to pre-empt the potential Egyptian threat and to enable them to build a bomb themselves. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Mossad, Operation Plumbat, Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Reactor, Fissile Material, Espionage, KGB, Uranium, Nathaniel Dickstein, Intelligence Agent
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