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International intrigue, murderous politics, and psychological suspense combine in a stylish literary thriller
An enigmatic Israeli who calls himself Shakespeare – because he's got a way with words – finds himself jolted on a sidewalk in Manhattan: Is that who I think it is, he wonders, or am I crazy?
Who he thinks it is, is one of the world's premier terrorists. Someone who murdered his partner. Someone he blames for the fog of despair that's overcome him. And most shockingly, someone Shakespeare's mysterious associates in Tel Aviv tell him had been killed in the desert.
So is Shakespeare cracking up, or cracking the case of a lifetime?
In the hands of esteemed Israeli author Joshua Sobol, the wicked riddle becomes a masterful work that transcends genre: It's a sumptuously written literary novel and a taut spy thriller. It's a moving recollection of a purposeful youth and a graphic account of the hunt for terrorists. It's the story of a mid-life crisis and the endless crisis of the Middle East. It's a work of wild and whimsical word-play and fast-paced, deadly gun-play.
It is, in short, the English-language debut of a mesmerizing writer at the top of his form.
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Claire Juranic
reviewed Cut Throat Dog on April 18, 2011
Cut Throat Dog
This book is okay and sometimes really good. There are lots of disorienting elements, but one of the major problems that makes it even harder to follow are the occasional spelling errors. I reread things like three or four tomes to make sure that I was not just misreading things and that it was an error. One occurrence I recall was "he" where it should have been "the." This can be really distracting in a book where the world is perpetually turned upside down.
Having just read THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD and watching a lot of Bond movies as well as reading more Israeli fiction lately, this was an interesting culmination for me. I look forward to Sobol's other works being translated. The names changing and such was a lot of fun and sometimes confusing. There was a bit in the middle where the book did start to lose me, but the last ~50 pages are very straightforward and worth the effort to get through this book (which is actually 270 pages not 190).
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