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The Lie

Dahlia Barr does not suffer fools - or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and tough, she is a successful Israeli attorney who specialises in defending Palestinians accused of terrorism. One day, to her great surprise, the national police approach Dahlia with a proposition: join us and become the government's arbiter on when to use the harshest of interrogation methods - what some would call torture. Dahlia is intrigued: as someone who has no intention of permitting torture, can she change the system from within? Then, as Dahlia settles into her new.

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  • "DAHLIA BARR DOES NOT SUFFER FOOLS?or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and as tough as she is beautiful, the controversial Israeli attorney specializes in defending Palestinians accused of terrorism. She is also a devoted mother, a soon-to-be-divorced wife, and the lover of a handsome American television corƯrespondent. To Dahlia?s astonishment, the Israeli secuƯrity establishment one day approaches her with a tantalizing proposition: Join us, and become the beleaguered nation?s arbiter on when to use the harshest of interrogation methods?what some would call torture. Dahlia is intrigued. She has no intention of permitting torture. Can she change the system from within? Then, as Dahlia settles into her new job, her son Ari, a twenty-year-old lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces, is kidnapped by HezbolƯlah and whisked over the border to Lebanon. The one man who may hold the key to Ari?s rescue is locked in a cell in police headquarƯters. Edward Al-Masri?professor, activist, media gadfly?is an Arab who has a long and complicated history with Dahlia. And he?s not talking. Yet."
  • "Dahlia Barr does not suffer fools - or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and tough, she is a successful Israeli attorney who specialises in defending Palestinians accused of terrorism. One day, to her great surprise, the national police approach Dahlia with a proposition: join us and become the government's arbiter on when to use the harshest of interrogation methods - what some would call torture. Dahlia is intrigued: as someone who has no intention of permitting torture, can she change the system from within? Then, as Dahlia settles into her new."@en
  • "Spending her career defending wrongly accused Palestinians, Dahlia Barr takes a position with the Israeli national police in the hopes of ending the practice of torture only to find her kidnapped son's fate in the hands of a prisoner who won't talk."@en
  • "Dahlia Barr does not suffer fools--or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and as tough as she is beautiful, the controversial Israeli attorney specializes in defending Palestinians accused of terrorism. She is also a devoted mother, a soon-to-be-divorced wife, and the lover of a handsome American television correspondent. To Dahlia's astonishment, the Israeli security establishment one day approaches her with a tantalizing proposition: Join us, and become the beleaguered nation's arbiter on when to use the harshest of interrogation methods--what some would call torture. Dahlia is intrigued. She has no intention of permitting torture. Can she change the system from within?"@en
  • "DAHLIA BARR DoeS NOT SUFFER FOOLS'or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and as tough as she is beautiful, the controversial Israeli attorney specializes in defending Palestinians accused of terrorism. She is also a devoted mother, a soon-to-be-divorced wife, and the lover of a handsome American television correspondent. To Dahlia's astonishment, the Israeli security establishment one day approaches her with a tantalizing proposition: Join us, and become the beleaguered nation's arbiter on when to use the harshest of interrogation methods'what some would call torture. Dahlia is intrigued. She has no intention of permitting torture. Can she change the system from within' Then, as Dahlia settles into her new job, her son Ari, a twenty-year-old lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces, is kidnapped by Hezbollah and whisked over the border to Lebanon. The one man who may hold the key to Ari's rescue is locked in a cell in police headquarters. Edward Al-Masri'professor, activist, media gadfly'is an Arab who has a long and complicated history with Dahlia. And he's not talking. Yet. The Lie is a nail-biting thriller, pulsing with insight into the inner workings of Israel's security apparatus. It is an unforgettable story of human beings on both sides of the terror equation whose lives turn out to share more in common than they'and the reader'could ever have imagined."@en
  • "In this taut novel, the dark complexities of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict hit home for a hard-edged female human rights attorney when her soldier son is kidnapped by Hezbollah."@en

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  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Powieść sensacyjna amerykańska"@pl
  • "Large type books"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "The Lie"@en
  • "The Lie"
  • "The lie"@en
  • "The lie"
  • "The lie : a novel"
  • "The lie : a novel"@en
  • "Kłamstwo"@pl
  • "Lie : a novel"@en
  • "The lie a novel"@en

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