Operation Wrath of God

Dr Aviva Guttmann is a lecturer in strategy and intelligence at Aberystwyth University and author of The Origins of International Counterterrorism (2018).

• Introduction: intelligence that kills; Part I. Preparing for God's Wrath: 1. Setting the scene; 2. Preparing the kill list; Part II. Europe's Covert War against the Palestinian Armed Struggle: 3. A firing squad in Rome and four black September attacks; 4. A bomb in Paris and two attacks in Bangkok and Rome; 5. Assassinations in Nicosia and Madrid, attacks in Jordan and Sudan; 6. A 'battle of the spooks' in Paris, Beirut, Nicosia, and Rome; 7. A car bomb in Paris, a firing squad in DC, a thwarted attack near Vienna; Part III. Blunder and Cooperate: 8. Lillehammer fiasco: official condemnation, covert approval; Conclusion: a secret security order.

'This book reads like a John Le Carré thriller. Packed with new revelations and gripping details, it stands out as the most authoritative account of Operation Wrath of God.' Ahron Bregman, author of The Spy Who Fell to Earth