Novel

Written in 2024

October 7 happened. Like every Jewish person I know, I spent a year waiting for the Mossad to deliver. We were certain there would be spontaneous combustions of terror cells across Europe, unexplained disappearances of key operatives, a string of eliminations no one would officially acknowledge. It did not happen. Gabriel does not answer to bureaucrats. This is the aftermath we were all waiting for.

Story no. 14 / Novel · Gabriel Cohen | Book 2

Haram

Revenge is a sweet nectarine.

Gabriel is tied to a wooden chair with blood running down his chin, gone cold. His captors believe they have the upper hand. They are wrong. Gabriel Cohen is exactly where he wants to be.

He was the most dangerous analyst who was never allowed to leave his desk. He had been retired for six weeks when October 7 killed his ex-wife on a kibbutz in the Negev. He did not wait to be sent.

Armed with operational keys he was never authorized to hold, Gabriel begins dismantling the European financial network of a Hamas leader who has not set foot in Gaza in a decade.

But the network falls too easily. And Gabriel has read enough after-action reports to know what that means.

In Arabic, “haram” means forbidden. Gabriel is about to find out the word has always applied to both sides of the table.

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Samir did not scream. That was a lie. I said it because Karim needed to hear it, and the lie would do more damage than the truth.
Haram