Created in 1951 to ensure an embattled Israels future, the Mossad has been responsible for the most audacious and thrilling feats of espionage, counterterrorism, and assassination ever ventured. Gordon Thomass 1999 publication of Gideons Spies, resulting from closed-door interviews with Mossad agents, informants, and spymasters, and drawing from classified documents and top-secret sources, revealed previously untold truths about the Israeli intelligence agency. And now, in this fourth edition, Thomas updates his classic text and shows a Mossad as it has historically been: brilliant, ruthless, and flawed, but ultimately awesome.

Six all-new chapters and updated appendices and glossaries examine:

*The London bombings: the untold full story of Mossads involvement

*Mossads key role in the G8 Summit in Scotland

*How Mossad discovered that by June 2005 Al Qaeda had acquired fissionable material from Pakistan and former Soviet Union Islamic Republics

*Secret phone calls to Washington that led to Tony Blair changing his position over war with Iraq

*WMD and Libya, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, China, and the House of Saud

*The mega spy in the Bush and Clinton administrations

*The PLO, Fatah, and Hamas

* The technology wars, and North Koreas bird-flu war games and “ethnic bombs”

*The Chinese involvement in the Los Alamos fiasco

Praise for Gideons Spies

“One of the few books that have captured the true nature of the Israeli government and the...Israeli power elite.”--Ari Ben-Menashe, former intelligence adviser to Yitzhak Shamir

“A fascinating look at a spy organization that has remained off limits to most journalists. The incredible episodes Thomas writes about seem like they belong in fiction, and yet this is a first-rate nonfiction account.”--GQ

“Thomas handles highly dramatic material with clarity and impact.”--The Washington Post Book World

“An anecdote-rich series of tales about the extraordinary derring-do of Israels vaunted elite foreign intelligence service.”--Kirkus Reviews

“Tells it like it was--and like it is.”--Meir Amit, former Director General of Mossad

Six all-new chapters and updated appendices and glossaries examine:

*The London bombings: the untold full story of Mossads involvement

*Mossads key role in the G8 Summit in Scotland

*How Mossad discovered that by June 2005 Al Qaeda had acquired fissionable material from Pakistan and former Soviet Union Islamic Republics

*Secret phone calls to Washington that led to Tony Blair changing his position over war with Iraq

*WMD and Libya, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, China, and the House of Saud

*The mega spy in the Bush and Clinton administrations

*The PLO, Fatah, and Hamas

* The technology wars, and North Koreas bird-flu war games and “ethnic bombs”

*The Chinese involvement in the Los Alamos fiasco