Triple Cross: Israel, the Atomic Bomb, and the Man Who Spilled the Secrets

by Louis Toscano

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561290483
• ISBN13: 9781561290482
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Knightsbridge Pub. Co.
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Interesting story---the devil is in the details

Mordechai Vanunu was a technician at the Dimona Nuclear Weapons facility in the mid-1980s. Dimona officially was a nuclear power plant providing power to southern Israel, but in reality was manufacturing atomic bombs. Vanunu became disillusioned with Israeli policy with regards to the bombs, and a whole list of other things with regards to Israel, and left the country. He lived in Australia for a while, and wound up contacting a British newspaper, telling his story of working in a nuclear arms manufacturing facility. He backed up his story with pictures he'd taken while he worked there with a camera he'd smuggled into the facility.Then he was kidnapped and smuggled back to Israel, where an only nominally fair trial was held and he was sentenced to 18 years in prison. He was incarcerated in a prison with few amenities and little contact with the outside world.This book was written soon after Vanunu was convicted. Toscano was a Jerusalem-based American reporter for a while, and he covers the ground swiftly and well. Vanunu's motives, actions while he was in Australia and Britain, and the trial itself, are recounted clearly and carefully, but painlessly. The prose is a bit pedestrian, and of course given that Toscano is a journalist, the chapters are short, as if he can't hold a thought for long. That's OK, though, it makes for a quick read. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the topic.

Wonderfully informative and an enjoyable read

This book is a perfect example of how the "ordinary" maneuvers of nations can be made into a work that is genuinely fun to read. At the same time, Toscano gives us an informative look into some of the most opaque institutions in the world: Israel's nuclear program, the Mossad, and the Shin Beth. The only readily apparent negative about this book is the lack of precise citation of sources by Toscano, making it difficult to independently verify information.

Explosive documentary - beautifully written and researched!

Triple Cross is a beautifully written expose on Israel's atomic bomb factory and the man who revealed this to the world. Mr. Toscano has gone to great lengths to accurately describe the events surrounding this revelation. I was so rivited to this book that I read it in one sitting. Toscano should begin work on a screenplay, since I anxiously await the movie.

A True-life Spy Thriller

An excellent blow-by-blow accounting of Mordechai Vanunu, the man who spilled the secrets of Israel's nuclear weapons program to further peace. "Triple Cross" reads like a spy novel. It's all here -- the idealist hero, a super-secret nuclear factory, globe-hopping travel, the secret service sworn to bring the "traitor" in, and a beautiful foil who seduces him on a British street corner and lures him to Rome and his awaiting fate. Was Mordechai Vanunu right to do what he did? Was Israel right to kidnap him on another country's soil? This books leaves you with more questions than it answers