Diplomacy and Death at the UN

by Richard Gordon

DIPLOMACY AND DEATH AT THE U.N. is an historical thriller based on authentic events occurring in the period 1960-1985. In 1974, Yasir Arafat, the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, gave a major speech at the United Nations offering 'a dove or a gun'--peace or war in the Middle East. Two professional assassins, one French and the other American, neither aware of the other, are hired to kill the P.L.O. leader for radically different reasons. The action follows the assassins from Israel to Paris to Geneva to Nairobi to Beirut to New York where each of them gains a position with the U.N. to carry out his mission.Major historical figures appear, including President Jimmy Carter, seeking to consummate the Camp David Accord for mutual recognition between Egypt and Israel, and U. N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, engaged in an intricate plot to make the United Nations politically and financially independent of the Big Powers in the Security Council.Diplomatic maneuvering, betrayals, sexual intrigue, and a murder point to the assassins's intentions to target Arafat, The Secretary-General, U.N. Security, and the world's leading intelligence agencies desperately work to prevent a killing that could kill the peace process itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1796350060
• ISBN13: 9781796350067
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.7" x 7.0"