The Hunt For The Engineer; The Inside Story of How Israel's Counterterrorist Forces Tracked and Killed the Hamas Master Bomber

by Samuel M. Katz

• ISBN13: 9781585747498
• ISBN10: 1585747491
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press

Summary

One of the bloodiest and most feared terrorists in the history of the Middle East, Yehiya Ayyash ("the Engineer") got his start in electronic engineering, innocuously monkeying about with family radios and TV sets. Indeed, Ayyash's original goal was to be an honest engineer, but when Israeli bureaucracy denied his routine application to study in Jordan, he joined Hamas and dedicated himself to a life of terror that lasted from 1994 to 1996 and resulted in 150 Israelis dead and 500 wounded. Katz's gripping book tells the story of Ayyash's early failures and his later, horrible successes, which included the Division Street and Dizengoff Street bombings.

Author Biography

Samuel M. Katz and has written more than twenty books and over 100 articles on Middle East security issues, international terrorism, and police and military special operations. His articles have appeared in editions of Playboy, Esquire, and Jane's Intelligence Review, and is the editor-in-chief of Special Ops. He has created documentaries for the Discovery Channel, A&E, and The Learning Channel, and lectures law enforcement agencies around the country on the history of terrorism

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(4)
The Chess Match Begins	5	(38)
The Thin Blue Line	43	(40)
The Other Sons of Abraham	83	(36)
The Autumn of Hope and Fire	119	(40)
The licking Bombs	159	(44)
The Autumn of the Assassin	203	(38)
Payback	241	(30)
Ghosts	271	(16)
Postscript The Stopwatch of Borrowed Time	287