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Robert Rosenberg's
Avram Cohen Mystery Quartet:

"Having created a highly intelligent detective to handle the brainwork in this series, Mr. Rosenberg does not waste that shrewd and subtle mind." -- --New York Times Book Review

More about the Avram Cohen Mystery Quartet at Ariga

Crimes of the City by Robert RosenbergThe first book in the Avram Cohen Quartet, in which the veteran Jerusalem detective investigates the murder of two Rusian nuns and uncovers the Jerusalem Syndrome, a mysterious psychosis affecting the susceptible in that holy city. The New York Times Notable thriller of 1991

The Cutting Room by Robert Rosenberg Out of print, the second book in the quartet finds Cohen unhappily retired, on his way to Hollywood to visit his boyhood friend, like Cohen, a Dachau survivor. But when he arrives, he discovers a suicide that is really a murder, and to find the killer, he must delve into his darkest memories of the concentration camp -- and understand the significance of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Download it as an e-book for free in html here. After unzipping it to is own directory, start with the index.htm file.

House of Guilt, by Robert Rosenberg Between the Hebron Massacre and Rabin's assassination, Avram Cohen is emotionally extorted into a hunt for a missing heir to a fortune. The case takes him from the anarchy of Tel Aviv's night life to the zealotry of the settlements, and forces him to look at his own failures in a new light.

An Accidental Murder by Robert Rosenberg In the fourth book of the series, what appears to be an accident in the desert turns out to be the murder of Cohen's surrogate son, and by ignoring police pressure to stay away from the case, Cohen's investigation leads him to the Russian Mafia's innermost circles in Israel.

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Secet Soldier

A revealing account of a 25-year career in the Israeli special forces ... Betser, fighting as a member and then leader of Israel's top anti-terrorist commando unit, largely describes the planning and execution of missions between the wars. Co-author Rosenberg does not have to exaggerate Betser's dramatic life, but as a thriller writer (Crimes of the City, 1991, etc.), he adds some necessary tension and plotting to Betser's curt, military description. Making up for dry and self- serving passages (``when you serve as a model, you're a commander and not a soldier'') are running narratives of bravado behind Egyptian lines in the Six-Day War and Yom Kippur War, a mission to kidnap Syrian generals in Lebanon, the assassination of PLO planners of the Munich Olympics massacre, the Entebbe hostage rescue, and more.

Betser was a natural for the Entebbe mission, since he had trained Idi Amin's forces in an earlier Uganda stint. Anecdotes from Africa show Betser overpaying servants and saving elephants from the rocket grenades of his trainees. Betser loves danger too much to convince us that he misses his ailing wife and Nahalal farm, but he does have the integrity to criticize incompetence in the Israeli Defense Forces.

He is harsh about the political factors that created 2,569 casualties in the Yom Kippur War and painfully aware of the mistakes that cost the life of Yoni Netanyahu, the only Israeli soldier killed at Entebbe.

It is Rosenberg, we suspect, who tries to make Betser into a ``secret dove'' in the introduction and epilogue. Secret Soldier adds much to our understanding of Israel's covert fighting arm. --
Copyright Š1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

The Ariga Best Seller List

Drek: The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You

The What Would Jesus Eat Cookbook

The Imaginary Voyage: With Theodor Herzl in Israel

The Jewish State

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish

Say It in Yiddish

Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid: Prospects for Resolving the Conflict

Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

The Joys of Yiddish