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...