The Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent Exposes the Mossad's Secret Agenda

After By Way of Deception shook the intelligence world and drew the fury of the Israeli government, Victor Ostrovsky had more to say. In The Other Side of Deception, his second major work of intelligence memoir, Ostrovsky moves beyond his account of Mossad field operations into territory that is, if anything, more alarming than what he had previously disclosed. Among the most startling revelations in this volume is Ostrovsky's account of a plot that came dangerously close to the assassination of George Bush, a claim that, like much of his testimony, generated intense controversy and official denial. He also provides his account of the events surrounding the death of media mogul Robert Maxwell, a figure whose intelligence connections had long been the subject of speculation but rarely of documented testimony. Ostrovsky writes not as a loyalist protecting the institution he served, but as a man who became convinced that the operations he had participated in had crossed lines no legitimate intelligence service should cross, and that the public had both the right and the need to know. Whether approached as political expose, intelligence history, or the moral reckoning of a disillusioned insider, The Other Side of Deception is a compelling and disturbing document of covert power and its human costs.