The Hit Team

By Dag Christensen and David B. Tinnin

Book Overview

A great spy novel about the Mossad's operation to kill the planner of the Munich Olympic attacks of ... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044013644X
• ISBN13: 9780440136446
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Dell Publishing
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.

Customer Reviews

From Back Cover

Elite Israeli intelligence units are set loose in Europe and the Middle East. Their mission: locate and liquidate the Arab terrorist leaders. Their prime target: Black Septembrist Ali Hassan Salameh, responsible for the murder of the Olympic athletes. Continually on the move, Salameh eludes his trackers in Germany, Paris, and Geneva. Then reports place him in an isolated Norwegian town! The hit team sets out to complete this fateful thirteenth mission... THE HIT TEAM.

Dated, but interesting...

Picked this title from a list of reference books my favorite novelist used as background. It's an interesting but quite narrow look at the situation, the people and the plan Mossad used after the Munich massacre. More interesting perhaps are the other accounts, both documentary and fictional, involving these events, to include Spielberg's screenplay, and the final result of this Israeli operation in 1979. Much of the information documented here is far too detailed, but may lend some credibility. This is a good place to start your inquiry and a worthwhile read. My copy was used, in good condition, and was once the property of a Temple library.

not as good as vengeance

i read this book after i read vengeance and i was a bit disappointed. even if vengeance isnt a first hand account , at least you got the idea it was. "the hit team" on the other hand was all about information from newspapers or magazines. if this subject interests you than by all means read the book.

Israeli operation to avenge the deaths of the 20th Olympiad

This book is a great journalistic effort that details how an israeli Mossad team carried a series of assasinations in Europe in 1973 against the Black September terrorists that participated and masterminded the attack that killed 11 israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympic games in Munich, Germany. Although some experts on the subject say that it contains some factual errors this is understandable if we take into account that the book was first published in 1976, just three years after the events took place. Despite the errors and due to its prompt publication the book served as reference for other authors that published more recent works. This book does not tell the whole story just by itself because when Israel carried out the operation against the members of Black September in 1973 the Mossad had commissioned numerous teams with different methods of operation. However, this is a good tool to get an idea on how the Mossad operated and still operates undercover in Europe. But remeber, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

a good story on the Israeli Mossad (if it is true)

I have personal interest in this book, I read it many year ago and the book got lost. since then I am looking for it. as far as I remember, it is historical book who try to describe the state of mind of the isaeli goverment, after the 1972 tragidy in the olimpic games, and the events that went on after that incident if this is all true it could be a Spilberg movie, but.......