The Quest for the Red Prince

Few terrorists have been as internationally notorious - or as deadly as "The Red Prince." That was the nickname of Ali Hassan Salameh a Palestinian who oversaw the Black September Organization from 1970 until his murder by car bomb in 1979. Salameh masterminded the 1972 hijacking of Sabena flight 572 to Tel Aviv killing 27 tourists at Israels Lod airport and the murder of the Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich. In 1973 he organized the murder of the American and Saudi ambassadors in Sudan. The Red Princes story is also that of General Aharon "Arale" Yariv Golda Meirs choice to run Israels counterterrorism response and of Zvi Zamir the head of the Mossad Israels intelligence unit. As The Quest for The Red Prince unfolds Zamir and Yariv orchestrate a series of daring cross-border assassinations picking off Black September members one by one chasing down Salameh until a final reckoning in Beirut. The Quest for The Red Prince does more than catalog the awful crimes of a terrorist and Israels search for a way to end his bloody reign: it authoritatively recounts the history of one of the central conflicts of our time - the Palestinian-Israeli struggle. (6 x 9 248 pages b&w photos) Michael Bar-Zohars previous books include a biography of Ben Gurion and a history of the Israeli Secret Services. Eitan Haber is an Israeli journalist and coauthor of a book about the raid at Entebbe.