The English Teacher

<b>Soon to be the major motion picture&#160;<i>The Operative </i>starring Martin Freeman and Diane Kruger.<br><br>For readers of John Le Carr&#233; and viewers of <i>Homeland</i> a slow-burning psychological spy-thriller by a former brigadier general of intelligence in the Israeli army</b><br><br><b>One of&#160;<i>The Washington Post's </i>10&#160;Best mystery books and thrillers of 2016<i><br></i></b><br> After attending her father&#146;s funeral former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears. But when she makes a cryptic phone call to her former handler Ehud the Mossad sends him to track her down. Finding no leads he must retrace her career as a spy to figure out why she abandoned Mossad before she can do any damage to Israel. But he soon discovers that after living under cover for so long an agent&#146;s assumed identity and her real one can blur catching loyalty love and truth between them. In the midst of a high-risk high-stakes investigation Ehud begins to question whether he ever knew his agent at all.<br> &#160;<br> In <i>The English Teacher</i> Yiftach R. Atir drew on his own experience in intelligence to weave a psychologically nuanced thriller that explores the pressures of living under an assumed identity for months at a time.