About the Author

Paul McGeough is the chief foreign correspondent for and a former editor of Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald and the author of several books on the Middle East, including Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas (The New Press), which won the 2010 Premier’s Book of the Year award in Sydney, Australia. He has twice been named Australian Journalist of the Year and was awarded the Johns Hopkins University–based SAIS Novartis Prize for excellence in international journalism and eight Walkley Awards for his reporting on crisis and conflict. He lives in McLean, Virginia.

Reviews

"More than just a thriller with endnotes. The author’s accumulated contacts over the years have given him rare access to most of the individuals at the centre of the Hamas story." —The Times Literary Supplement

"An incisive insider’s history about one of the world’s most intractable conflicts—and a ripping yarn to boot." —Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker

"Suspense-filled." —Vanity Fair

"McGeough’s work reminds us what real journalism looks like. " —Firedoglake.com

"[A] riveting account of Israel’s botched poisoning of Mishal." —Library Journal