Three envelopes

First Title Value for Searching:

Three envelopes

Personal Author:

Hezroni, Nir, 1968-

Edition:

First U.S edition.

Physical Description:

310 pages ; 22 cm.

General Note:

"First published in 2014 in Israel by Keter Books" -- Verso title page.

Genre:

Spy stories.

Suspense fiction

Summary:

"Agent 10483 carried out his missions perfectly. Too perfectly. When a top agent in the Israeli Organization receives a disturbing notebook written by the mysterious 10483, supposedly dead for years, he realizes that something went terribly wrong. Is 10483 a psychopath who outwitted his handlers for years? Or was he manipulated by his superiors to carry out the most monstrous assassinations in the history of the state of Israel? And why was he the only agent to receive three envelopes with targeted killing assignments instead of one, as part of a lethal and top secret operation? Was he responsible for locking up his victims and staging their deaths, or was he himself merely the victim of a brilliant scientist whose cutting-edge discoveries enabled her to manipulate his brain waves? Offering a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the technology of high-level intelligence operations, Nir Hezroni's dark thriller is a chilling exploration of the mind of a master killer. "--

Subject Term:

Intelligence officers -- Fiction.

Assassins -- Fiction.

Additional Credits:

Cohen, Steven (Translator)

Publication Info:

New York : Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, 2017.

Subject:

Intelligence officers -- Fiction.

Assassins -- Fiction.

Israel -- Fiction.

Spy stories.

Suspense fiction

Intelligence agents

Hatchet men (Assassins)

Hit men

Hitmen

Triggermen

Dawlat Isrāʼīl

Država Izrael

Dzi͡arz͡hava Izrailʹ

Gosudarstvo Izrailʹ

I-se-lieh

Israele

Isrāʼīl

Isŭrael

Isuraeru

Izrael

Izrailʹ

Medinat Israel

Medinat Yiśraʼel

Stát Izrael

State of Israel

Yiselie

Yiśraʼel

Ισραήλ

Израиль

Государство Израиль

Дзяржава Ізраіль

Ізраіль

מדינת ישראל

ישראל

إسرائيل

دولة إسرائيل

イスラエル

以色列

SAILS ISBN:

9781250097590

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Summary

A thrilling debut, Three Envelopes delves into the twisted mind of a rogue agent in the Israeli intelligence agency and his mysterious plot for revenge.

Agent 10483 carried out his missions perfectly. Too perfectly. So perfectly that he needed to be stopped. . .

When Avner, a top agent in The Organization receives a notebook, written by the mysterious and psychopathic 10483, ten years after his supposed death, he realizes that something has gone terribly wrong.

The notebook not only reveals the truth about 10483's missions, which include some of history's most notorious unsolved crimes, but it also reveals that 10483 might still be alive and desperate for vengeance against the Organization.

As Avner reads the long-lost notebook, questions abound. Was 10483 a psychopath who outwitted his handlers for years or was he merely a tool, manipulated by his superiors to carry out some of the most monstrous mass killings in history? Why was he the only agent to receive three envelopes that carried the names of targets on a special hit list? And was he responsible for a basement of horrors where he locked up innocent victims and staged their deaths as art installations? Or was he himselfmerely the victim of a brilliant scientist who found a way, through cutting-edge technology, to manipulate his brain?

Offering a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the technology of high-level intelligence operations, Nir Hezroni's dark thriller is a chilling exploration of the mind of a master killer.

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Hezroni's superior thriller debut will send chills up the spines of even jaded genre fans. Blowback from a complex Israeli intelligence operation plotted by an entity known simply as the Organization has murderous consequences a decade later. Extracts from the notebook of the man who was recruited by the Organization and known as agent 10483 reveal him to have been a paranoid child, who routinely measured the level of liquids in his family's refrigerator to make sure that no poison was added to them while he was asleep. This notebook implicates 10483's former superiors in a mass murder in Canada in 2006; in 2016, one of them, Avner Moyal, receives the notebook from a law firm that held it for 10 years. As Moyal works his way through 10483's recollections, he learns the truth about the agent's activities. Meanwhile, the reader learns that someone currently poses a threat to the Organization's leaders. Hezroni maintains a high level of suspense as he expertly toggles between past and present en route to the heart-stopping conclusion. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

Psychopath and sadist aren't just psychiatric tags these days. They're job descriptions. Hezroni makes that clear in the first few pages of his furious, hard-edged thriller. We meet Agent 10483 that's all anybody, including us, knows him by as a toddler, checking levels in his parents' water bottles to see if anyone's introduced poison. Then we watch as he brutally avenges a schoolyard taunt. This mix of paranoia and savagery makes him attractive to an intelligence service called the Organization, and, after surviving a testing that would turn James Bond to mush, he's let loose. He keeps a journal, detailing the mega-violence he visits on the Organization's hit list. Or just about anybody who crosses him. The journal is delivered to 10483's handlers after his supposed suicide, and we learn there's a level of brutality a step beyond what we've seen. That's when the Organization realizes 10483 is very much alive and is coming for them. Training rooted in such cruelty is effective only when the agent is sane to begin with. Too bad they overlooked that. A very fine and very dark thriller.--Crinklaw, Don Copyright 2017 Booklist

Library Journal Review

[DEBUT] Hezroni's first novel takes the reader into the labyrinthine world of the Israeli intelligence agency known as the Organization. Going back and forth in time from the late 1990s to present day, the story of Agent 10483 unfolds. This agent carries out his mission in ways his superiors could not have anticipated, resulting in horrifying consequences. Interspersed in the narrative are the agent's detailed diaries, which reveal his mind. Is he a natural-born psychopath who somehow fooled the Organization? Traveling from Israel to Switzerland, Argentina, and Canada in 2006, Agent 10483 pursues the Organization's agenda, followed by a mysterious woman who may have the power to control his mind. Ten years later, members of the Organization are in peril as they scramble to find Agent 10483 before he causes further harm to those who directed and controlled him. Verdict This thriller will delight those who enjoy the twisted world of international espionage. Fans of Jason Matthew's Red Sparrow or those looking for a darker, more technical Daniel Silva read-alike will also appreciate this disturbing tale.-Terry Lucas, Shelter Island P.L., NY © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.