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From best-selling author of Fighter Boys, a gripping true detective story into a shooting that had momentous consequences for the modern world. What happened when the lawman and the terrorist came face to face - adversaries who matched each other in determination, cunning, courage and ruthlessness? This book is the first to tell the tale.As the world plunged into global conflict, in British-governed Palestine a killing took place that shook British and Middle East politics. While in neighbouring Egypt, British forces were confronting Rommels Afrika Korps, a series of robberies in Palestine by the militant Zionists of the Stern Gang, led by the charismatic Avraham Stern - known as the light by his followers, began a war with their colonial governors. Soon they had targeted and killed policemen, initiating a huge manhunt amid Tel-Avivs hotbed of suspicion, violence and fanaticism. Assistant Superintendent Geoffrey Morton, a middle-class Londoner who had swapped milk deliveries for the excitement and dan
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