天使》。拯救以色列的埃及间谍

 天使》。拯救以色列的埃及间谍

乌里-巴-约瑟夫

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这是一部扣人心弦的报告文学作品，首次以英文揭露了为以色列从事间谍活动的埃及高级官员阿什拉夫-马万的轰动性生活和神秘死亡，为中东动荡的现代历史提供了新的视角。

作为埃及总统贾迈勒-阿卜杜勒-纳赛尔的女婿和他的继任者安瓦尔-萨达特的亲密顾问，阿什拉夫-马万可以接触到该国政府最深的秘密。但马万本人也有一个秘密：他是以色列情报部门摩萨德的间谍。在 "天使 "的代号下，马万将埃及变成了以色列情报部门的一本公开的书--并且通过在赎罪日埃及和叙利亚联合进攻之前提醒摩萨德，使以色列免于一场毁灭性的惨败。

乌里-巴-约瑟夫通过细致的研究和对许多关键参与者的采访，将马尔万的故事拼凑起来。在此过程中，他对埃及和中东现代历史上的这一动荡时期进行了新的解读，并在2011年的 "阿拉伯之春 "中达到高潮。天使》还记录了以色列政府内部的不和谐，导致总理戈尔达-梅尔下台。

然而，这段扣人心弦的叙述并没有随着以色列在赎罪日战争中的胜利而结束。马万躲过了埃及无情的特工部门多年，但后来有人开口了。五年后，即2007年，他的尸体在其伦敦公寓楼的花园里被发现。警方怀疑他是被人从五楼的阳台上扔下来的，由于有了爆炸性的新证据，巴尔-约瑟夫终于可以揭示出是谁、如何以及为什么。

The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel

Uri Bar-Joseph

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A gripping feat of reportage that exposes—for the first time in English—the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian senior official who spied for Israel, offering new insight into the turbulent modern history of the Middle East.

As the son-in-law of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and a close advisor to his successor, Anwar Sadat, Ashraf Marwan had access to the deepest secrets of the country’s government. But Marwan himself had a secret: He was a spy for the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. Under the codename “The Angel,” Marwan turned Egypt into an open book for the Israeli intelligence services—and, by alerting the Mossad in advance of the joint Egyptian-Syrian attack on Yom Kippur, saved Israel from a devastating defeat.

Drawing on meticulous research and interviews with many key participants, Uri Bar Joseph pieces together Marwan’s story. In the process, he sheds new light on this volatile time in modern Egyptian and Middle Eastern history, culminating in 2011’s Arab Spring. The Angel also chronicles the discord within the Israeli government that brought down Prime Minister Golda Meir.

However, this nail-biting narrative doesn’t end with Israel’s victory in the Yom Kippur War. Marwan eluded Egypt’s ruthless secret services for many years, but then somebody talked. Five years later, in 2007, his body was found in the garden of his London apartment building. Police suspected he had been thrown from his fifth-floor balcony, and thanks to explosive new evidence, Bar-Joseph can finally reveal who, how, and why.