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Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal is a non-fiction book that tells the stories of many of the extraordinary missions of Mossad, the secret service agency of Israel.

There are 22 impressively detailed chapters describing missions conducted by Mossad over the years. I specifically picked up this book to read two stories: the capture of Adolf Eichmann, and Operation Wrath of God where Mossad tracks down and kills the men responsible for murdering the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

This book wasn't just a story of the successes of Mossad. There were detailed narratives of how Mossad planted various agents in other government administrations, the careful planning, rehearsals and the frank acknowledgement of their failure in some cases. The events range from the time of the formation of the state of Israel in the late 1940s to the recent years, and geographically spread from the Middle East, North and South America, and Europe.

On the negative side, the stories weren't presented in chronological order and some of them were a bit dry. However, that didn't affect my enjoyment. I found the courage of these individuals to be amazing and I'm glad to have read about other missions that just didn't result in a movie being made of the events.