Authors: Ken Follett
Tags: #Fiction, #Historical, #Thrillers, #General, #Espionage, #Unknown
Postscript
From the London Daily Telegraph of May 7, 1977:
ISRAEL SUSPECTED OF HIJACKING SHIP WITH URANIUM
by Henry Miller in New York
Israel is believed to have been behind the disappearance from the high
seas nine years ago of a uranium shipment large enough to build 30 nuclear
weapons, it was disclosed yesterday.
Officials say that the incident was "a real James Bond affair" and that
although intelligence agencies in four countries investigated the
mystery, it was never determined what had actually happened to the 200
tons of uranium ore that van-
ished . . . -Quoted by permission of Ile Daily Telegraph, Ltd.
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About the Author
KEN FOLLETr is the author of the bestselling Eye of the Needle, which won
the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award as best novel of 1978
and which is available in a Signet edition. Welsh-born, he is a former jour-
nalist for the London Evening News and editorial director of Everest Books
in England. He now lives in Grasse, France, with his wife and two children.
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