Haggai Carmon: Jewish Spy Novel writer

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This guy looks like trouble...note how his novels have Interpol and the CIA working with his fictional (real?) MOSSAD heroes using Goy styled names...  --CSR

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 Haggai Carmon  Jewish Spy Novel writer  

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# Triple Identity
Foreword by a former top Mossad executive:
"Seamless weaving of fact and fiction... riveting"

Preface by a former general counsel of INTERPOL-U.S.:
"[An] innovative and inventive mind...highly entertaining"
# The Red Syndrome
Foreword by former Israeli Deputy Defense Minister:
"A damn good story...fictional but all too real"
# The Chameleon Conspiracy
Introduction by former top CIA operation officer:
"I take my hat off to Haggai"
# Triangle of Deception
Introduction by former Director of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service:
"So vivid, so realistic...Haggai is a master of the tradecraft"

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Dan Gordon, from the Sleep With One Eye Open intelligence thriller series by Haggai Carmon operates as a lone wolf. He gave up a promising career with the Mossad when one blown cover relegated him to a desk job for life. Now based in the U.S., he works for the Justice Department, gathering intelligence, recovering assets and following elusive trails around the world. His assignments often overlap with matters of national security, so he's no stranger to collaborating with the CIA...and using his Mossad training to get out of very sticky, often deadly situations.

From SleepWithOneEyeOpen, comes the Dan Gordon Spy Club. Go ahead. Snoop around. We promise no one's watching...


http://dangordonspyclub.com/tag/israel/



The Author

Haggai Carmon heads Carmon & Carmon/GLOBALAW, an international law firm. In 1985, the U.S. Justice Department started retaining Carmon as its attorney to represent the government's interests in its Israeli civil litigation matters, a task he continues to perform. Carmon is also the legal counsel to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, and in 2007, he successfully represented the European Union in civil litigation cases in Israel. He also represents business entities with transnational interests.

The thrillers that Haggai Carmon authored were inspired by his sensitive undercover work for two decades. The U.S. Department of Justice and other government agencies assigned him with the worldwide responsibility (except for the U.S.) for gathering intelligence in multi-million dollar complex white-collar money laundering and mega fraud cases that required work in more than thirty countries. The thrillers describe CIA/MOSSAD cooperation where the protagonist Dan Gordon, a Mossad veteran now working for the U.S Department of Justice in foreign intelligence gathering, discovers that seemingly routine cases he is handling are espionage or terrorist related.

To date, Haggai Carmon has written four novels in the Dan Gordon Intelligence Thriller series: Triple Identity, The Red Syndrome, The Chameleon Conspiracy and Triangle of Deception. The first two were published first in hardcover and in trade paperback and finally as mass-market pocketbooks. Triple Identity was also translated into Hebrew and published by Israel's largest publishing house for distribution in Israel.

Carmon's third thriller, The Chameleon Conspiracy, came out in April 2009, followed in November 2009 by his latest, Triangle of Deception – both in mass-market pocketbook editions. Additional thrillers are on the way.

For those who've had their fill of traditional books, all titles in the series are available for Kindle download on Amazon. Other electronic versions are available for Sony's eBooks and Barnes & Noble's Nook. The titles are also available in Audio (both on CD and MP3 download) through AMAZON, B&N and http://www.BooksinMotion.com.

Haggai Carmon, son of a banker and writer, grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel. Following a career involving international activities, he graduated cum laude from the Tel Aviv University School of Law. In 1986, he graduated from St. John's University in New York with a Certificate in international law and Diplomacy and in 1987 with an M.A degree in Government and Politics.

During the 1984 general elections, Carmon was appointed as a member of Shimon Peres' personal campaign team. When Shimon Peres became Prime Minister of Israel, he appointed Carmon as the Chief Delegate of the Israeli Labor Party to the United States. In 1985, Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai appointed Carmon as their representative to The Task Force, a 400-member organization of businessmen created to promote closer U.S – Israeli economic cooperation. In 1986, Prime Minister Peres dispatched Carmon as a special envoy to the Philippines to establish broader cooperation with the new Aquino government in combating terror. Haggai Carmon is married to Rakeffet his law partner. They have five children and live in New York and Israel.
Haggai Carmon's Personal Message

My intelligence thrillers were inspired by my Israeli professional background, as well as by my twenty years of service for the United States Government. During those years, I had a publicly known "daytime" activity as well as a covert "nighttime" activity. Since 1985, I have been representing the United States government in its Israeli civil ligation appearing in Israeli courts in lawsuits to which the U.S was a party. However, away from the public eye, I was also engaged by the U.S government to perform intelligence gathering in multi-million dollar white-collar crime cases that required sensitive undercover work in more than thirty countries. Obviously, in my years working for the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies, I could not share the hair-raising aspects of my work with anyone but my supervisors, and some adventures not even with them. Sadly, many of these events, which are sometimes more fascinating and breathtaking than the best fiction I have ever read, will never see the light of day. The story of Dan Gordon and his battle against the invisible FOE – forces of evil—is my idea of the next-best thing.

A globetrotting legal practice has left little time for hobbies. However, one night in a small hotel in a faraway country, I finally had the time to fulfill my urge to write. I was on U.S government assignment collecting intelligence on a particularly vile and violent criminal organization. Earlier that evening, I'd received a phone call from the local INTERPOL contact. "You've been exposed. I suggest you stay in your hotel. We'll arrange for your safe departure tomorrow morning." Is it any wonder I couldn't sleep that night, between jet lag and the rage that came from being unarmed and unable to leave the hotel without my hosts' protection? I poured it all into the writing, and the result was Triple Identity.

That book turned out not to be a fluke; I wrote the sequels because I realized I still had adventures to recount, including about events surrounding that same long and sleepless night.

Readers have also asked since Triple Identity and the Red Syndrome's publication whether the events recounted there really happened. One newspaper reviewer even accused me of writing "too authentic" a novel, while another reviewer praised me for it. How can you argue with that? My next thrillers may meet a similar reaction. As to how much of them is "true," I leave it to my readers to decide. All my thrillers were inspired by my work for the U.S. government, but they are a work of fiction rather than autobiography. During my twenty years of undercover work for the U.S Department of Justice and other federal agencies, I have experienced adventure, fear, and most of the time, a great sense of achievement. During those two decades, I was assigned the demanding, sometimes-dangerous task of collecting legal intelligence on white-collar criminals who had absconded from the United States. These individuals usually left with the money they stole to another more welcoming jurisdiction than the United States, which frowns on people who steal millions and launder them. That explains why sometimes, waking up in countless hotels in more than thirty countries, I had trouble remembering where I was. Walking in the long corridors of foreign airports, it was hard to remember whether I was arriving or departing.

More thrillers in the series are to follow. Although they are fiction, their authenticity is unparalleled, a fact attested to by the identity and words of the individuals who wrote the books' introductions.

* For Triple Identity: Sarah McKee, former general counsel, INTERPOL, USA and an "Anonymous" former top MOSSAD executive.
* For The Red Syndrome: Brigadier General Ephraim Sneh, Israel's former Deputy Minister of Defense and Minister of Health.
* For The Chameleon Conspiracy: Andre LeGallo, former top CIA operative.
* For The Triangle of Defection: Jacob Perry, former director of SHABACK, Israel's internal security service.

In my professional life, I have had enough adventures, frequently dangerous, to fill at least ten books, and those are just the ones I can talk about.

http://www.sleepwithoneeyeopen.com/the-author/