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Lion of Judah

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I read this book in three days. This is quite fast for me. The author is very skillful about telling several stories at once. You never know what is going to happen next in any of these stories. It seems every minor detail in the story seems to have dramatic consequences to what happens next. Additionally, the action in the book is very fast. I was not bored for a single page during the entire book. However, the book did not have enough descriptive detail for my taste. I would have liked to get to know the characters and the cities they operated in in greater detail.

After reading all three of Ostrovsky's books recently, I am firmly of the mind that all three must be read to understand Israel's deep objection to them and the absolute necessity for Americans to become familiar with them.

Ostrovsky is not American; however, anyone who takes the time to study these books, including the roman a clef LION OF JUDAH, will realize that he has presented the intellectual means for Americans to discern what is only now appearing on the web under the disturbing website http://www.letsroll911.org/.

LION OF JUDAH is a fictionalized account of what Ostrovsky could not say otherwise. He states this in one of his books and in a rare interview. I was expecting the dreary pastiche of most spy novels. I found myself reading it for the details I knew were overlooked in the real-time reporting of the world events he recounts.

The Caveat mentioned in the title of my review belongs to the writer's craft. Ostrovsky ignores the professional writer's rule that you don't advance a story in your character's quotes. That said, he no doubt felt he had no option. Ostrovsky was fighting against time in the early 90s to get his story out before the Mossad figured out a way to eliminate him. Staying in the public eye is one way to keep yourself alive.

He finished writing his three books over a decade ago. In 1997, the Mossad set out to bankrupt and ruin him financially. [Search Google for an article he wrote in a US-based Middle East journal.] I gather he is now doing what he always wanted to do, which is paint. He is an artist.

Ostrovsky's books should be critical reading for every anchor intoning on national TV and Cable. White House pool reporters should be forced to have Ostrovsky's valuable insight in the arsenal of their thinking patterns.

Considering that the only people high-fiving and extolling the destruction and demolition of the Twin Towers on 9-11 were five Mossad agents caught on the banks of Jersey City with a video camera and mocking the burning of the towers with Zippo lighters, I would urge every American to read these books forthwith. [Check Google for the "dancing Israelis" and "Mossad" "911"]

Then ask yourselves, how would five people KNOW to have a video camera mounted on top of a van as the towers fell at 10 AM that day?

LION OF JUDAH and Ostrovsky's two other books might give you the answer.

I did not mind this book, it just failed to really grab my interest. So I wrote a small review to really encourage people to read his first book, 'By Way of Deception'. That is a fascinating non-fictional account of the extremely important Israeli Mossad, as told by an ex-agent.

'The Other Side of Deception' is also enlightening and well written though it contains a few weak spots in my opinion.