Book description
Tel Aviv. A suicide bomber has killed 19 in a packed city centre
restaurant. Dr Amin Jaafie, an Israeli Arab, is a surgeon at a nearby
hospital. Respected and admired by his colleagues, the doctor
represents integration at its most successful. But this night of
turmoil and death takes a horrifyingly personal turn as his beloved
wife's body is found among the dead... could she have caused the devestation?
From the graphic, shocking description of the bombing that opens the
novel to its searing conclusion, The Attack portrays the
reality of terrorism and its costs. Intense and humane, thoughtful,
sensitive and heartfelt, it displays a profound understanding of that
which can seem incomprehensible.
