Heroic Scum: How the PLO's Old Campaigners Were Betrayed by Peace

by Matt Rees

Untold Mideast presents long-form journalism that reveals Israelis and Palestinians as you don't see them in regular news reports or conventional nonfiction. Matt Rees, former Time Magazine Jerusalem bureau chief, a Mideast correspondent since 1996, and an award-winning crime novelist, tells the story of old PLO fighters who thought the peace agreements with Israel had put an end to their participation in the dirty games of espionage and terrorism. The violence and corruption of the regime in the West Bank and Gaza left them bitter and disillusion...and ready to spill their secrets.

32 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 17, 2012

About the author

I'm an award-winning writer of international thrillers, mysteries, and historical fiction. I'm giving away a FREE ebook THE THRILLER CHECKLIST, a no-nonsense guide to get your thriller written. Get it here: http://bit.ly/2r2jciK.

My novels have grown out of my career as a Middle East correspondent, which took me into culture very different from my own, and my love of history, which takes me into times very different from now. But those places and times aren't so completely different. I love to examine the emotions that connect you and me to people who live in distant places or distant times.

My books have been dramatized for BBC Radio and published in 25 languages. Along the way I picked up some major awards (a Crime Writers Association Dagger in the UK and a National Jewish Book Council finalist in the US)) and some nice compliments: major authors have compared my writing with the work of Graham Greene, John Le Carre, Georges Simenon and Henning Mankell.