A review by guiltyfeat
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman

5.0

Shocking and thrilling, exhilarating and depressing. I can't imagine a better researched version of these stories and the people in them than this giant book. When you seem to have seen so much of the tradecraft contained in these pages in fictional contexts, it's hard to remember that these techniques were developed by real people to solve real problems.

While the morality behind some (many?) of the operations described here remains questionable and their cumulative effect on history debatable, the overall impact of this collected history is awe-inspiring though not always in a good way.