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Take Out the Driver

| June 05, 2018

Review of Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman

Assassinations are much in the news today, from the attempted nerve agent poisoning Rise and Kill First coverof a former Russian spy in Britain to Mossad's reported elimination of a Hamas weapons engineer in Malaysia. Although such covert operations attract contemporary news headlines, there are few studies that place this extreme form of state action in historical context....

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For Academic Citation: Walton, Calder. “Take Out the Driver.” TLS (Times Literary Supplement), June 5, 2018.

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