Library Journal Against the backdrop of the Sinai War, Uris provides a riveting portrait possibly autobiographical of a man caught in personal crisis. Gideon Zadok, best-selling novelist and successful Hollywood screenwriter, has come to Israel with his family to research a new novel and to shore up a crumbling marriage. But he jeopardizes that by starting a passionate affair with a beautiful Auschwitz survivor.
Zadok is a man wavering on the edge of a breakdown. As the political crisis. As the political crisis escalates, and his family is evacuated, Zadok asks to accompany Israeli paratroopers on a desperate mission to seal off the strategic Mitla Pass. The Uris name will make this book much in demand, and if it is not as much of an epic as Exodus or Trinity , it has in Zadok Uris's most fascinating character.
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Mitla Pass by Leon Uris. From the Russian pogroms of the early s to Israel's Sinai War in , Mitla Pass is an extraordinary epic novel of love and war, violence and passion, and man's eternal quest for freedom, from the bestselling author of Battle Cry, The Haj and Mila Get A Copy.
