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Ishi
Ishi is a fictional epic story of a girl who at age three in 1988 gets lost across the border fence from West Germany into East Germany.
Raised by new parents in East Germany, memories of her past soon dissolve away, and Ishi grows up unaware that she had any other beginnings or parents.
Ishi’s biological parents Sonya and Joseph Katz, having lived a life of crime and espionage in the Middle East, reach a crisis in 2000. They flee for their lives! They find anonymity with new IDs in Western Canada. Palestinian and Israeli intelligence agencies are desperate separately to find the Katz couple, the PLO to preserve a spy network, Mossad to break the long-standing infiltration. Each agency realizes that the elusive Katz couple are the key.
Discovering Ishi living as a seventeen-year-old in a small German town, the best vice of both intelligence agencies is to push the biological daughter to find her parents. And so, at the age of eighteen when Ishi is busy exploring romance and all the things that normally surround a bright beautiful eighteen-year-old girl, pressures are put on her to cause her to search for her real parents.
Besides first subtly and then not so subtly exposing Ishi to her true origins, forces and pressures are brought to bear on Ishi, forces that push her hard, forces that strain hard every aspect of Ishi’s life.
As Ishi comes closer to reconnecting with her biological parents, she faces a terrible moral dilemma. She learns that her father was wicked and willingly criminal. She also learns that her mother was an abused victim and trapped into the life of crime. Ishi will face a very difficult choice, turn them in to authorities and thereby guarantee her loving biological mother brutal State justice or keep their secret and thereby become an accomplice.
This tale spans more than a decade, an era that sees the fall of the German separation. As the pace of the story accelerates with the circumstances, elements of a normal teenaged girl are maintained despite the pace of the circumstances. The story of Ishi is thoroughly engaging from start to finish.
Raised by new parents in East Germany, memories of her past soon dissolve away, and Ishi grows up unaware that she had any other beginnings or parents.
Ishi’s biological parents Sonya and Joseph Katz, having lived a life of crime and espionage in the Middle East, reach a crisis in 2000. They flee for their lives! They find anonymity with new IDs in Western Canada. Palestinian and Israeli intelligence agencies are desperate separately to find the Katz couple, the PLO to preserve a spy network, Mossad to break the long-standing infiltration. Each agency realizes that the elusive Katz couple are the key.
Discovering Ishi living as a seventeen-year-old in a small German town, the best vice of both intelligence agencies is to push the biological daughter to find her parents. And so, at the age of eighteen when Ishi is busy exploring romance and all the things that normally surround a bright beautiful eighteen-year-old girl, pressures are put on her to cause her to search for her real parents.
Besides first subtly and then not so subtly exposing Ishi to her true origins, forces and pressures are brought to bear on Ishi, forces that push her hard, forces that strain hard every aspect of Ishi’s life.
As Ishi comes closer to reconnecting with her biological parents, she faces a terrible moral dilemma. She learns that her father was wicked and willingly criminal. She also learns that her mother was an abused victim and trapped into the life of crime. Ishi will face a very difficult choice, turn them in to authorities and thereby guarantee her loving biological mother brutal State justice or keep their secret and thereby become an accomplice.
This tale spans more than a decade, an era that sees the fall of the German separation. As the pace of the story accelerates with the circumstances, elements of a normal teenaged girl are maintained despite the pace of the circumstances. The story of Ishi is thoroughly engaging from start to finish.
356 pages, Paperback
Published November 23, 2022
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February 14, 2023
Complex espionage books that are epic in that they span more than a decade and accurately recount historical events and changes are rare! Glen Peters managed to tell a suspenseful gripping action-packed spy story while at the same time going deep to involve the "human" element as master-writers such as John Le Carre do. I lived Ishi's life all the way from toddler-hood through her young adult appetites rife with romantic inclinations. Superb! With a desperate moral/ethical dilemma looming large toward the end of the story, it's clear that the story of Ishi won't be subject to a typical ending treatment, and it wasn't. Nothing neat or linear about this adventure ... which is EXACTLY what I want in a good story.
February 14, 2023
It's rare for a complex espionage novel to be so well saturated with the "human" element. Daniel Silva and John Le Carre do it very well. And Glen Peters has really done it in this novel Ishi! Becoming part of Ishi's life from a 3-year-old through her young adult years when she's exploring romance and coming-of-age things, it was quite an adventure to see at least 2 nations lean hard on Ishi through their intelligence agencies. I really enjoyed that the ending was an anxious moral dilemma with no neat solution! Absolutely brilliant!
October 21, 2023
Couldn't put it down!
WOW! What a story! Will def be a number 1 seller! Can't wait to read more from this Author. 5 ⭐️ all the way!
WOW! What a story! Will def be a number 1 seller! Can't wait to read more from this Author. 5 ⭐️ all the way!
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