This is a sensational book!  I read this book over ten years ago and I still vividly remember parts of it, it is honestly that good.  The recent Spielberg movie Munich, inspired by the book is no where near the quality of Jonas' masterpiece.  Nothing wrong with the directing, the acting by Eric Bana or anything like that from the movie, it's just that reading the first count words following the events through the eyes of Avner, the leader of the five man assasin team, his experiences, emotions and so forth just grips you that much more than the acting performances in Munich ever could.

This biographical novel humanises the five man Israeli assassin team and is a great insight into what it would be like to be assigned to do this monumental task. When they first realised how just easy it was to kill people who thought they were safe and their fears for their own mortality from this realisation, I thought was just fascinating. The fact that they have a family like everyone back home with his experiences of his baby being born and the humour of everyone telling him his child was beautiful as a baby and he couldn't see it.  The fact that they were doing this great thing for their country that was going to hopefully bring and end to terrorism and obviously in past major wars the bravest soldiers come home throughout the war and are heroes whereas Avner got in trouble from the police for driving a car with the wrong fuel day drivability sticker on it and things like this as no one back home knew who they were or what they were doing.

Vengeance is a great insight into the Israeli point of view of the battle against terrorists as well as into the minds of soldiers who are assassins.  I can't recommend it enough, you won't be able to put it down.
This is a sensational book! I read this book over ten years ago and I still vividly remember parts of it, it is honestly that good. The recent Spielberg movie Munich, inspired by the book is no where near the quality of Jonas' masterpiece. Nothing wrong with the directing, the acting by Eric Bana or anything like that from the movie, it's just that reading the first count words following the events through the eyes of Avner, the leader of the five man assasin team, his experiences, emotions and so forth just grips you that much more than the acting performances in Munich ever could. This biographical novel humanises the five man Israeli assassin team and is a great insight into what it would be like to be assigned to do this monumental task. When they first realised how just easy it was to kill people who thought they were safe and their fears for their own mortality from this realisation, I thought was just fascinating. The fact that they have a family like everyone back home with his experiences of his baby being born and the humour of everyone telling him his child was beautiful as a baby and he couldn't see it. The fact that they were doing this great thing for their country that was going to hopefully bring and end to terrorism and obviously in past major wars the bravest soldiers come home throughout the war and are heroes whereas Avner got in trouble from the police for driving a car with the wrong fuel day drivability sticker on it and things like this as no one back home knew who they were or what they were doing. Vengeance is a great insight into the Israeli point of view of the battle against terrorists as well as into the minds of soldiers who are assassins. I can't recommend it enough, you won't be able to put it down.