One Eyed Kings - Hardcover

Cohen, William S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385239629 ISBN 13: 9780385239622

Publisher: Nan A. Talese, 1991

U.S. Senator Sean Falcone and reporter Philip Drake ponder Congressional committees and espionage while investigating the deaths of another Senator and the Israeli ambassador, both linked to a beautiful Mossad agent

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From Publishers Weekly:

Extensive interior monologues weaken the dramatic irony in this otherwise powerful thriller. While personally investigating the gruesome murder of senator Joshua Stock, fellow senator Sean Falcone discovers the lawmaker might have been spying for the Israelis. To his horror, he learns that the White House has secretly hired the Israeli secret service to help with the languishing Strategic Defense Initiative but has planted a spy in the Mossad. The subsequent murder of this agent has the earmarks of a Mossad operation, but Falcone has reason to think that Stock's death might be related to a Soviet plot. All the major players, however, turn out to be "one-eyed kings" in "the land of the blind." Frustrated by the impenetrability of the apparent Soviet scheme, Falcone agrees to work with Washington Post reporter Philip Dake, to whom he does not reveal all he suspects, and Mossad "Killer Angel" Rachel Yeager, about whom he entertains some doubts. After surviving an apparent attempt on his life, Falcone, accompanied by Yeager and followed by Dake, flies to Israel, where, dodging more hit squads, the heroes unravel an ingenious plot to destroy that nation. U.S. senator Cohen (coauthor of The Double Man ) portrays the workings of Washington politics with studied realism, and his plot rings true down to the surprises in the shattering finale.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

It has become a genuine genre: the post-Cold War espionage thriller, complete with obligatory troubled President, a somewhat shady FBI chief, and a colorful cast of spies including a beautiful and sexually accommodating female agent. Cohen, a U.S. Senator from Maine, has written a dandy "insider" tale here. Set in the tinderbox Middle East, with Israel at its core, the plot revolves around a Soviet subversive plan (code name: Buraq ) aimed at reviving their declining power base, post-Gorbachev and post-Desert Storm. U.S. Senator Joshua Stock, leading pro-Israel voice in the Senate, is brutally murdered. It falls to his friend, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sean Falcone, to find the killer. This is a compelling story, one step ahead of the headlines. Recommended for libraries with large contemporary fiction collections.
-Chet Hagan, Berks Cty. P.L., Fla.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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