The Eleventh Plague

In 2006, the results of a vital experiment were stolen

from a Russian laboratory. The man who held the secrets

wound up in Beirut, where he was carried off his plane in

an unconscious state and taken by Mossad agents to a mobile

hospital in southern Israel. The author, Keith Midgen, has

spun a tale of drama, violence, and love. A married couple—

one British, one American—pretended to be something they

were not. A young woman sought out the father she had

never seen but, in a visit to a Bedouin village, found more. A

barely sane German officer of the Lebanese intelligence service

dreamed of a Fourth Reich so that the Holocaust could be

replayed. When the Russian experiment took further shape

in the hands of an Ashkenazi professor and his assistants, the

story played out after the advent of the Lebanon/Israel war,

which began with an attempted invasion by Hezbollah and

Hamas—Israel’s bitter foes.

The various characters involved were helping to prevent the

war from expanding since Israel had already fought more than

eight previous ones. In 1947, the UN General Assembly voted

for the state of Israel to exist, but there were many who disagreed.

The need for peace with Israel’s neighbors was strategically and

morally important, but by 2006, no solution had been found.

The time to make both sons of Abraham able to exist side by side

was long overdue. When would it happen—then or in the future?