Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas

With its "fly-on-the-Wall vantage of the rising diplomatic panic that sent shudders through world capitals" [Toronto Star], Kill Khalid is a masterpiece of investigative journalism and the definitive chronicle of the Middle East in the 1990s.

In 1997, the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad poisoned Hamas leader Khalid Mishal in broad daylight on the streets of Amman, Jordan. As the little-known Palestinian leader slipped into a coma, the Mossad agents' escape was bungled and the episode…