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Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas Hardcover - 2009

by Paul McGeough

In a headlong narrative--with high-speed car chases, negotiated prisoner exchanges, and an international scandal--acclaimed reporter McGeough uses extensive interviews with Khalid Mishal himself and the key players in Amman, Jerusalem, and Washington to tell the inside story of the rise of Hamas.


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  • Title Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas
  • Author Paul McGeough
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 477
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press, USA
  • Date 2009-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781595583253 / 1595583254
  • Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 7.28 x 1.58 in (23.06 x 18.49 x 4.01 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Chronological Period: 1990's
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Arab-Israeli conflict, Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyah
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008040455
  • Dewey Decimal Code 956.953

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2008, Page 1295
  • Library Journal, 01/22/2009, Page 0
  • Library Journal Annex, 01/22/2009, Page 0
  • London Review of Books, 05/14/2009, Page 15
  • New York Review of Books, 11/05/2009, Page 35
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/12/2009, Page 40
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2009, Page 40

About the author

Paul McGeough is the chief foreign correspondent for and a former editor of Australia's Sydney Morning Herald and the author of several books on the Middle East, including Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas (The New Press), which won the 2010 Premier's Book of the Year award in Sydney, Australia. He has twice been named Australian Journalist of the Year and was awarded the Johns Hopkins University-based SAIS Novartis Prize for excellence in international journalism and eight Walkley Awards for his reporting on crisis and conflict. He lives in McLean, Virginia.
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