Dimensions
129 x 198 x 21mm
As the world plunged into global conflict, in British-governed Palestine a killing took place that shook British and Middle East politics. While in neighbouring Egypt, British forces were confronting Rommel's Afrika Korps, a series of robberies in Palestine by the militant Zionists of the Stern Gang, led by the charismatic Avraham Stern - known as 'the light' by his followers, began a war with their colonial governors. Soon they had targeted and killed policemen, initiating a huge manhunt amid Tel-Aviv's hotbed of suspicion, violence and fanaticism.
Assistant Superintendent Geoffrey Morton, a middle-class Londoner who had swapped milk deliveries for the excitement and dangers of colonial policing, was the man tasked with stopping Stern. When finally he succeeded, his shots would echo through the years. 'The Reckoning' is the tale of the man who terrorised Israel, the man determined to prevent him, and the creation of a cult of martyrdom that destroyed of any hope of compromise between Arab and Jew.
With access to Geoffrey Morton's previously unseen archive, master storyteller Patrick Bishop uncovers the thrilling chase that impacted on a region and a century with effects that the modern world still feels, profoundly, today.
