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Triple Identity: A Dan Gordon Intelligence Thriller
Investigating attorney Dan Gordon is working for a unit of the U.S. Department of Justice that combats money launderers outside the United States. A routine mission develops into a complex international plot involving murder, espionage, kidnapping, conspiracy, and romance. Gordon, an indefatigable bloodhound, calls on his innate shrewdness, as well as his secret Mossad past and training, to ferret out the truth. In this intelligence thriller, attorney Haggai Carmon, a U.S Department of Justice outside consultant, weaves an ingenious plot. The Byzantine, subterranean methods by which rogue states - in this case the theocracy of Iran - seek to acquire nuclear materials are illuminated. If you want to understand how the CIA and the Mossad work, alone and together, you'll get no better picture than the one told in this compulsively readable intelligence thriller.
336 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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July 1, 2018
I wanted to like this book so bad. I do forensic accounting for a police department and I was really hoping for more methodology on the money laundering. It seemed like it took a really long time to tell a relatively short story.
January 9, 2021
a bit rough around the edges. If the author had not taken the pain of explaining that the main character is based on hos own life, it would have been all too easy to say that the character is highly unlikely to exist. In any case, the characters were a bit shallow, and the plot a bit too twisted and the dialog too contrived.
November 2, 2021
Triple identity
More twists and turns than most of the books I have read in the last year or so, made somewhat irritating by the pedantic style used by the author. A story can hold my attention without getting in the weeds for every observation.
More twists and turns than most of the books I have read in the last year or so, made somewhat irritating by the pedantic style used by the author. A story can hold my attention without getting in the weeds for every observation.
May 16, 2019
A very good read. Dan Gordon meets Ariel. A suspense from Germany, Moscow, Israel, and other places. This one will keep your mind busy, trying to follow all the places and the people.
June 13, 2011
FOUR STARS FOR THE SET UP OF THE PLOT OF THIS FIRST NOVEL
With a very enticing, clever and smart plot, that makes the reader tick from the very beginning, and carefully worked out with alluring elements for lovers of spy novels like Israel Mossad operational recruitment procedures and operational tricks, ruthless Iranians agents making shady deals to obtain components to make the A bomb, greedy European bank executives and the CIA intervention, the author conceives a very attractive fiction novel based on his own life experiences
However there are some features, that in my opinion he must work hard to improve for future spy novels.
It is clear that Mr Carmon is not a professional writer and it shows, as the language he employs is plain and simple as the one you may find in the World section of any English language newspaper.
He also makes a second mistake as an apprentice, and that is, to unveil the whole scheme of the plot in the last 20 pages, reeling off names, places, bay guys, situations and events, one right after the other overwhelming the mind of the reader instead of making breathtaking twists and turns every step of the way.
With a very enticing, clever and smart plot, that makes the reader tick from the very beginning, and carefully worked out with alluring elements for lovers of spy novels like Israel Mossad operational recruitment procedures and operational tricks, ruthless Iranians agents making shady deals to obtain components to make the A bomb, greedy European bank executives and the CIA intervention, the author conceives a very attractive fiction novel based on his own life experiences
However there are some features, that in my opinion he must work hard to improve for future spy novels.
It is clear that Mr Carmon is not a professional writer and it shows, as the language he employs is plain and simple as the one you may find in the World section of any English language newspaper.
He also makes a second mistake as an apprentice, and that is, to unveil the whole scheme of the plot in the last 20 pages, reeling off names, places, bay guys, situations and events, one right after the other overwhelming the mind of the reader instead of making breathtaking twists and turns every step of the way.
March 29, 2009
Apparently, the author, Haggai Carmon, is also an Israeli-born lawyer who works for the US Government on recovering very large sums of stolen funds, just like the protagonist of this story. And apparently, though the book is fiction, it contains elements from the author's own experiences. As a result, this story has less melodrama & more real-life gritty details than lots of similar stories. I found it very absorbing.
July 20, 2016
Very poorly written. The insights into the espionage business were mostly points that anyone who reads adventure novels already knows. The financial connections of the plot were too complicated to follow. Finally, instead of the type of action that one expects in a novel like this, most of the book consisted of people talking and reviewing the points of what was happening. I could only sit and read page after page of dialogue for so long.
February 28, 2014
What a fun ride. It is a bit different, almost hearing the author's voice, which is hard to separate from the lead character's, as he describes the complicated plot. Although quit different from the dialogue driven works that I write, I really enjoyed the plot and the detail. I will read more books from this author.
March 31, 2009
I couldn't pronounce a lot of the places in the book since I have never been to Europe, etc. and don't really speak any language other than English. It kept my attention but it got really slow at parts and I would have to take a couple of days off to gear back up for it.
April 19, 2009
Decent thriller, with a former Israeli-trained spy working to track down stolen money from a murdered man, with three identities. Lots of competing interests swirling around: South American drug lords, money laundering bankers, German police, Israeli spies and FBI.
February 27, 2010
This is a fast-moving story of an Israeli/American investigator for a US government agency trying to recover missing money. The author's background includes stints as a Mossad agent in Israel and as US operative trying to recover ill-gotten gains. I can't wait to read another book by Carmon.
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July 28, 2011OK, I gave up on this, just so you know. There were way too mnay elements for your usual spy/espionage novel, and no way to connect them together.
April 25, 2013
This really was a good book. A little bit dated, but good thriller without all the language and sex. Well written and I could recommend it. It wasn't the greatest book out there, but a good read.
April 6, 2014
I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed how Dan Gordon drew from his Mossad training and applied it to his current work with the DoJ.
August 18, 2015
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It was a little hard getting into but once you did I couldn't put it down. Great book lots of interesting things
It was a little hard getting into but once you did I couldn't put it down. Great book lots of interesting things
December 22, 2016
Intense read.
April 29, 2015
I particularly liked the descriptions re how the different governments worked together.
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October 14, 2017don't like the way it is written; didn't read
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