"A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last."—The Wall Street Journal "Friedman's sober and striking new memoir ....

"Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." --The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, di...