The Hammer of Eden

1968. The height of the Arab-Israeli conflict. A seasoned Mossad agent, Nathaniel Dickstein, receives an assignment to steal uranium in an amount sufficient to make an atomic bomb, and devises an elegant, down to the smallest detail, plan to kidnap and substitute a merchant ship, “Coparelli,” which is transporting a large shipment of uranium ore. But the operation is threatened by danger—an old acquaintance of Nathaniel, an Egyptian intelligence officer Yassif Hasan, happens to find out about him completely by chance. And then begins a duel of aces of international espionage—both equally brilliant at their difficult trade. The duel’s outcome is completely unpredictable, and the result depends on a great deal…