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This is Inside the New York Times Booker View. I'm Pamela Paul.

Joining us now from Hamburg is Ronan Bergman, author of Rise and Kill First,

the Secret History of Israel's targeted assassinations.

Ronan, thank you for being here.

Thank you for inviting me.

Hi, Babylon.

So tell us about the book that you set out to write and how it evolved over time.

We're back in early 2010 following a botched operation of Mossad, of the Mossad assassination attempt

in Dubai.

Random House asked me to write something about the Israeli intelligence.

And I was thinking of writing the history of the extensive use of Israeli intelligence

agency with the weapon of targeted assassinations.

And it evolved in time to be the history of Israeli intelligence.

I promised random House I'm going to deliver the manuscript in early 2012.

And it was published in 30 January 2018.

And one of the reasons it took so long was that I decided to disregard everything that

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