Heat of Ramadan

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Summary: A spy thriller that's REAL!
Review: Eytan Eckstein is one of Israeli Military Intelligence's finest field agents. A fatal error in attempting to assassinate one of the world's deadliest Palestinian Terrorists sends Eckstein's career crashing down nearly to ruins. Amar Kamil begins a program of personal vendetta against Eckstein and his entire team. It's a clash of monumental proportions, richly detailed with characters and places that live in your mind as this novel grabs you and wraps itself around your imagination and carries you to its stunning conclusion. This is writing of the first order. Author Hartov clearly knows the inside workings of Israeli Intelligence. His Characters are real. None of them are bigger than life or made to be superheroes. You can identify with the Antagonist and Protagonist alike in this magnificent portrayal of Mid-Eastern tension and drama. A Book well worth reading more than once!

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Summary: The heat of ramadan made me cold with boredom!
Review: First of all, I couldn't tell you how it ended, cause I never got that far. Except for the execution in the beginning of the book, and the ensuing chase, this book had litterally nothing to keep the reader interested enough to bother with finishing the story.
The author spent way to much time dealing with the main, and secondary character's background lives to the point where it become down right boring!
I read it to the halfway point, where I could no longer stand it, tore it up, and threw it in the trash can, like I do with all the books that thoroughly disgust, or bore me!
Note: there was a movie based on this book, with Christopher Lambert playing the lead role. Suggestion: see the movie, like Bond, it was far better than the book.

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Summary: Hartov - The Le Carre of the Israeli Intelligence Scene
Review: Let's be honest here...there are two kinds of people who write spy novels: those who have been through the thick of covert ops and those who think they have because they've seen a few Bond films. Hartov is the genuine article and then some.

Having some intelligence experience of my own, the Heat of Ramadan is without question the most neatly assembled, accurately derived, and beautifully written spy novel I've read in years. For anyone who thinks they know about intelligence work from Hollywood, I recommend reading this book to see the haunting dangers of reality as told through the pen of a master.

Hartov's work is a masterpiece. The type of classic other books in the genre will be measured against.