Research Catalog

Title

The hunt for the engineer : how Israeli agents tracked the Hamas master bomber / Samuel M. Katz.

Author

Katz, Samuel M., 1963-

Publication

New York : Fromm International, 1999.

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Details

Description

xii, 303 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Yehiya Ayyash, the Palestinian bomb builder known to the world simply as "The Engineer," killed 130 Israelis and wounded nearly 500 during a twenty-four-month campaign of terror."--BOOK JACKET. "Charged with the task of catching Ayyash was the Shin Bet, the most secretive and elite of Israel's secret services."--BOOK JACKET. "Samuel M. Katz, a security and special operations expert, reveals here for the first time how the Shin Bet, its director and its agents in the field, conducted an unprecedented and merciless search and destroy mission against one man. Ayyash, however was not an easy target, even for the Shin Bet. He was highly intelligent and elusive and possessed a sophisticated support network."--Jacket.
• "Each time the Shin Bet closed in on Ayyash, he managed to slip through their fingers, until, at last, they tracked him down and killed him by placing a sophisticated bomb in his cellular phone."--BOOK JACKET. "The Hunt for the Engineer is a real-life thriller that provides a rare look behind the scenes of Israel's secretive security apparatus and how it operates within the stark context of life and death in the Holy Land, where bombs are once again shaping the political landscape."--Jacket.

Subject

• Ayyāsh, Yaḥyá
• Bombers (Terrorists) > West Bank
• Terrorism > Israel > Prevention

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Chess Match Begins -- The Thin Blue Line -- The Other Sons of Abraham -- The Autumn of Hope and Fire -- The Ticking Bombs -- The Autumn of the Assassin -- Payback -- Ghosts -- Postscript: The Stopwatch of Borrowed Time.

ISBN

0880642432

LCCN

^^^99036863^

OCLC

1243747619

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library