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Once again, boringly, I was ejected by my previous publishers, William Collins, as they became transformed into the Rupert Murdoch Moloch HarperCollins, amid the usual “night of the long knives” and disappearances of senior staff. Again, my editor at this house took fright and locked me out of the building, strewing garlic all over the doorjambs in case I climbed back in and infected him with my low sales. I fell down, however, on Bloomsbury, and, in the same year, as Tim O’Keeffe withdrew from active duty, found a new agent, the parfait gentleman David Grossman, who has handled my work from 1992.From the cover:
Middle East peace? It must be a mirage. But for Joe Dekel, `certified paranoid', one-time novelist and Israel's only religious anarchist, the quest for peace between old enemies leads to a maze of intrigue among old friends ... Sent by his newspaper's editor to cover an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Conference in New York, Dekel is waylaid by an earnest young American Jew who informs him he is Joe Dekel's `Silencer', assigned by a maverick right-wing blacklister to keep unwelcome pro-Palestinian literature from being published in the United States.
Truth or fantasy? Led to a secret rendezvous in a downtown office block, Dekel finds not his youthful informant but a wrinkled old man with a bludgeoned head, who denounces him as a traitor, then dies...
Who is manipulating whom? The 'Silencer has disappeared. The dead man is the alleged blacklister, Murray Waiskopf. Is someone setting Joe Dekel up? True to his vocation of making the wrong moves for the right reasons, Joe follows the twisted trail of clues, into a labyrinth of abduction and violence, hints of spy scandals and bizarre alliances between American Christian fundamentalists and Jewish zealots, against the background of Palestinian rebellion and the schisms of modern Israel. Will Joe Dekel ever find out what the eccentric FBI Agent Oral Kool is after? Will he fall foul of peace activist Dorothy Morgenthal's deadly nunchaku sticks? Is Joe Dekel really being Silenced, or is he just falling prey to the shadows of his own frustrations and fears?
From New York to the schizoid city, Jerusalem, from the West Bank to the Church of the Living Christ in Utah, Joe and his wife, the stubborn and determined Anat, are jerked along the tangled path of deceptions in a political thriller which charts the forbidden zones of the Israeli-Palestinian feud.
From the critically acclaimed author of the Blok Trilogy comes a novel which combines comedy and tragedy mixed with the devastating anarchic clarity which is uniquely Louvish.
Dedication: For Abbas – we lived through the real thing!!
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