I Also Had to Kill
Publisher
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Éditions Albin Michel
Parution date
:
2003
EAN
:
9782226141866
Description
Nima Zamar (a pseudonym) emigrated to Israel eleven years ago at the age of 22. To become a true citizen, she joined the army. Once enrolled, her skills as a computer programmer caught the attention of the Mossad, the Israeli secret service. She was coerced into joining their ranks, where she was put through intensive physical and mental training, particularly in torture resistance. She spent the next six years on missions, infiltrating the Hezbollah and posing as a Swiss-reared Palestinian with money to support their cause. She was integrated into the ranks of the Islamic terrorists, and trained at their camps. At each Hezbollah camp her specific mission for the Mossad was to introduce bugs into computer networks so that the systems could be hacked into by the Israelis back home. Her assignments with Hezbollah took her to Libya, Syria, and around Lebanon. Her tales of wrenching torture, near-death, narrow escapes and raw courage are the stuff of fiction, and she admits at the end of the book that because she cannot name people and actual places for fear of endangering those she worked with, the whole story is hard to believe. Nonetheless her editor, who knew her in Paris when she was a child, stands by the account, and there is enough detail to make it believable and a page-turner to the end.
Author
Nima Zamar : Zamar managed to extirpate herself from the services of the army by leaving Israel for good. She is now back in Paris working in information technology, and the mother of an 18-month old daughter. The child’s father was a colleague in the Israeli army killed during a mission in Iran before the baby was born.
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