The Spy's Gamble Paperback – June 5, 2018 by Howard Kaplan

Another edge of my seat  from start to finish with no bathroom breaks novel from Howard Kaplan .A must read .

The Spy's Gamble, written with the same character strength and style of the author's previous Mid-East thrillers, "The Damascus Covers"; "The Chopin Express" and "Bullet's of Palestine", is intertwined with drama, intrigue and history. It's a great read and for the inquisitive and inquiring reader, forcing you to recall and re-evaluate Mid-East politics spanning the 1940's to today. His characters come to life within the historical events in which they are set. If you enjoy well-written historical based fiction where the characters operate within familiar geopolitical events you want to read the Spy's Gamble as well as Kaplan's other books. Hopefully it won't be another 30 years for his next novel -- it would be fun to see the author plant some of his character development into today's politics and the Mid-East.

When the Israeli Prime Minister boards a new stealth submarine in Norfolk, Virginia intending a celebratory ride and the sub vanishes, it sets in motion a suspenseful story that intertwines the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a story of what could be.

Shai Shaham—an Israeli intelligence officer—contacts old friend and adversary Ramzy Awwad—a former PLO intelligence officer and one of the great writers of his people—for help in locating the missing prime minister. But can they trust each other? Can their friendship withstand the turbulent political landscape?

Eli Bardin—an agent who is feeling the strain of being away from his wife and children for so long in the field—is also tasked to contact Ramzy for the help in finding the missing sub. It seems the Russian have great interest in the technology, and he must locate the prime minister...because losing him is a national calamity that threatens to upset a delicate political balance in the most terrifying ways.


Starkly depicting the excesses of both sides and moving through actual events, THE SPY’S GAMBLE relies on in-depth

About the Author

HOWARD KAPLAN, a native of Los Angeles, has lived in Israel and traveled extensively through Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. At the age of 21, he was sent on a mission into the Soviet Union to smuggle a dissident's manuscript on microfilm to London. His first trip was a success. On his second trip, he transferred a manuscript to the Dutch Ambassador inside his Moscow embassy. A week later, he was arrested in Khartiv in the Ukraine and interrogated for two days there and then two days in Moscow, before being expelled from the USSR. The KGB had picked him up for meeting dissidents and did not know about the manuscript transfers. He holds a BA in Middle East History from UC Berkeley and an MA in Philosophy of Education from UCLA. He is the author of five novels. DAMASCUS COVER is now a major motion picture starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sir John Hurt and Olivia Thirlby.