by George Jonas · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007225651
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«Vengeance» is George Jonas's nonfiction account of the hunt for those responsible for the Munich massacre, published by Harper Perennial in paperback.
In 1972, eleven Israeli athletes were murdered during the Munich Olympics. The book follows an Israeli team tasked with locating and executing the culprits, and describes in detail the tracking and the executions. Jonas also examines the moral paradox of fighting terrorism with its own tactics.
The work was originally published in 2006; this edition is the Film Tie-in linked to the feature film Munich. Text in English.
Aimed at readers of history, espionage and true crime interested in the Middle East and the fight against terrorism.
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).
