02668cam a2200421 i 4500 975944331 TxAuBib 20231013120000.0 230928s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781639365111 HRD 27.95 1639365117 HRD 27.95 TxAuBib rda Vidich, Paul, author. Beirut Station [BOOK] : two lives of a spy / by Paul Vidich. 2 lives of a spy. First Pegasus Books edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023. 291 pages : map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Maps on lining pages. Lebanon, 2006. The Israel-Hezbollah war is tearing Beirut apart: bombs are raining down, residents are scrambling to evacuate, and the country is on the brink of chaos. In the midst of this turmoil, the CIA and Mossad are targeting a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist, Najib Qassem. Najib is believed to be planning the assassination of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is coming to Beirut in ten days to broker a cease-fire. The spy agencies are running out of time to eliminate the threat. They turn to a young Lebanese-American CIA agent. Analise comes up with the perfect plan: she has befriended Qassem's grandson as his English tutor and will use this friendship to locate the terrorist and take him out. As the plan is put into action, though, Analise begins to suspect that Mossad has a motive of its own: exploiting the war's chaos to eliminate a generation of Lebanese political leaders. She alerts the agency but their response is for her to drop it. Annalise is now the target and there is no one she can trust: not the CIA, not Mossad, and not the Lebanese government. And the one person she might have to trust--a reporter for the New York Times--might not be who he says he is...-- Provided from Amazon. 20231013. United States Central Intelligence Agency Fiction. Israel Mosad le-modiʻin ṿe-tafḳidim meyuḥadim Fiction. Intelligence service Israel History 20th century. Intelligence officers Fiction. Lebanon War, 2006 Fiction. Women spies Fiction. Journalists Fiction. Espionage Lebanon. Terrorism Fiction. Beirut (Lebanon) Fiction. Historical fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Spy fiction.