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Richard North Patterson (2007) Exile.

Rare combination of a thrilling story with an intelligent political analysis of the ongoing tragedy between Israelis and Palestinians. A courtroom drama, a love story, and a political thriller on a most complex and controversial subject. There is not one page that is boring!

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Michael Chabon (2007) The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel.

The "Frozen Chosen" are living in a fictitious Alaskan homeland, as once suggested by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hard-drinking cop Meyer Landsman investigates the murder of his neighbor. Publishers Weekly called it a "murder-mystery speculative-history Jewish-identity noir chess thriller". The funniest novel of 2007 is filled with Yiddish jokes and dark humor.

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Yasmina Khadra (2007) The Attack.

Dr. Amin Jafaari, a surgeon in a Tel Aviv hospital, who also happens to be an Israeli-Arab, has been saving innocent victims of a devastating suicide attack. Exhausted, he returns home to his wife Sihem - but she has disappered. Several hours later he finds out that Sihem is suspected of being the suicide bomber.

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Edwin Black (1999) Format C:

From Y2K-bug to biblical archeology in Israel.

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Batya Gur (1994) A Literary Murder.

Michael Ohayon, Superintendent of Criminal Investigations in Jerusalem is investigating murder within a small, tightly structured academic community. Two professors in the Literature Department at Hebrew University are killed: lecturer Iddo Dudai is poisoned in Eilat, and Shaul Tirosh, Israel's most prized poet, is fatally bludgeoned in his university office.

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Yasmina Khadra (2007) The Attack.

A serious, shocking book set in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Amin Jaafari, a well-respected and hard-working surgeon at a busy Tel Aviv hospital gets between the fronts of this bitter conflict. His world falls appart when he begins to suspect that his wife is behind a suicide bombing that killed 19 people including children in Tel Aviv. Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of Mohammed Moulessehoul, an Algerian exile.

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Robert Rosenberg (2001) Crimes of the City.

Avram Cohen, policemen in Jerusalem, investigates a series of brutal crimes. Rosenberg's razor-sharp portray of life in Israel could be from a political correspondent, but the finely drawn characters of his action-packed story display the psychological insight of a novelist.

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