Triple identity

Dan Gordon is a lawyer who investigates for a branch of the U.S. Department of Justice that goes after money launderers operating abroad. What starts as an ordinary assignment spirals into a tangled international affair involving murder, espionage, kidnapping, conspiracy and romance. Gordon is relentless and perceptive, and he relies on his natural judgment and his past training with Israel's Mossad to get at the truth.

The author, Haggai Carmon, works as an outside consultant to the Justice Department and draws on that experience. The novel traces the secretive, winding channels a rogue state, here the theocratic regime of Iran, uses to try to obtain nuclear materials.

Readers interested in how the CIA and the Mossad operate, both separately and together, will find a vivid picture of their methods in these pages.