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PUBLISHER: Birlinn General

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781846972263

RRP: £12.99

PAGES: 288

PUBLICATION DATE:
February 20, 2012

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The Pure

Jake Simons

Disaffected ex-Mossad agent, Uzi, works as a security guard and low-level drug dealer in London. Uzi gets the chance to expose the ruthlessness of his former employers by giving the details of a top-secret assassination operation to WikiLeaks – a story so damaging to the Israeli government that an opposition party is prepared to pay to ensure WikiLeaks gets the scoop. But once it’s out there, Uzi will be a marked man …

Jake Simons

Jake Simons is a features writer for the ‘Sunday Telegraph’ and other publications, and a broadcaster for BBC Radio 4. Under the name Jake Wallis Simons he has published two acclaimed literary novels. This is his first thriller.

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