by George Jonas · Ulisseia · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725685464
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«Munique - A Vingança» is George Jonas's nonfiction account, published by Ulisseia in paperback (392 pages, in Portuguese).
After the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the Mossad organizes retaliation. Avner, an agent chosen by Golda Meir, leads a team to locate and eliminate those responsible. The mission raises the moral dilemma of using the same tactics as terrorism. It is the true story that inspired «Munich».
This Portuguese edition carries the subtitle «5 de Setembro de 1972». The English original was published in 1984 as «Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team».
For readers interested in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, espionage and covert operations.
George Jonas, CM was a Hungarian-born Canadian writer, poet, and journalist. A self-described classical liberal, he authored 16 books, including the bestseller Vengeance (1984), the story of an Israeli operation to kill the terrorists responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre. The book has been adapted for film twice, first as Sword of Gideon (1986) and as Munich (2005).
