Triple a book review of yet another Ken Follet book by Endre Barath Jr. a Beverly Hills Realtor

Triple a book review of yet another Ken Follet book by Endre Barath Jr. a Beverly Hills Realtor

First off, Ken Follet is one my all-time favorite authors.  How often have you read a book and just thought “Wow I knew it! This is how it really happened”.  Ken Follett’s books generally leave me with this impression whenever I finish one of his books. Needless to say, Triple left me with the same impression.

My most recent reads have been of the 1960’s-1970’s Middle Eastern genre, books covering Egypt, Israel, the Fedayeen, the Palestinians and others.  Ironically, the last three books I’ve read by Frederick Forsyth and Ken Follett read exactly as I remembered reading about the events in the news during those days.

So, with that lead-in, let me start my book review of Triple by quoting the Postscript from the book: A quote from the London Daily Telegraph written on May 7th, 1977 “Israel suspected of hijacking ship with uranium” by Henry Miller.

 The book was first published in 1979, and I am the proud owner of an autographed first edition book!  (As a book nerd, I am excited over that.)  Our cast of characters include a Mossad top level agent, a Russian KGB agent, and Palestinian terrorists, some who are best known as active players of the 1972 Olympic Massacre. Ironically, thanks to my German and English language skills I happened to be working as an Interpreter in the Press Center for the Olympic Committee in those days. Hence the connection was extremely uncanny for me.

To give you an idea of the plot, it is about the fact that Egypt is getting close to developing a nuclear bomb and in the 1960’s. The Mossad’s star agent is tasked with the challenge to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race. His job is to find and steal 200 tons of uranium without getting caught and exposing the Israeli connection to this event.

Indeed, the book was another page turner; needless to say, no one outside of a few people who were in the top-secret government levels knew the answer or suspected the answer outside of the few of us such as Henry Miller from the London Daily Telegraph and of course author Ken Follett.  Clearly this is a true story, historical fiction you’d say, and after you read the book you will agree with me that it is a great historical reflection of what was happening in the late sixties through the late seventies in the Middle East.

If you have not read it, I highly recommend that you read it if you are a fan of that particular period of history, current events and the background to the Middle Eastern crisis.

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