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SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIE
A gripping feat of reportage that exposes—for the first time in English—the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian senior official who spied for Israel, offering new insight into the turbulent brand new history of the Middle East.
As the son-in-law of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and a close advisor to his successor, Anwar Sadat, Ashraf Marwan had get entry to to the deepest secrets of the country’s government. But Marwan himself had a secret: He used to be a spy for the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. Under the codename “The Angel,” Marwan turned Egypt into an open book for the Israeli intelligence products and services—and, by alerting the Mossad upfront of the joint Egyptian-Syrian attack on Yom Kippur, saved Israel from a devastating defeat.
Drawing on meticulous research and interviews with many key participants, Uri Bar Joseph pieces together Marwan’s story. In the process, he sheds new light in this volatile time in brand new Egyptian and Middle Eastern history, culminating in 2011’s Arab Spring. The Angel also chronicles the discord within the Israeli government that brought down Prime Minister Golda Meir.
However, this nail-biting narrative doesn’t end with Israel’s victory in the Yom Kippur War. Marwan eluded Egypt’s ruthless secret products and services for a few years, but then any individual talked. Five years later, in 2007, his body used to be found in the garden of his London apartment building. Police suspected he had been thrown from his fifth-floor balcony, and due to explosive new evidence, Bar-Joseph can after all reveal who, how, and why.