BOOK REVIEW

On June 27, 2007, a 63-year-old Egyptian businessman fell to his death from the fifth floor of his luxury apartment in London. Was he pushed or did he jump?

The dead man’s identity makes this a curiouser and curiouser sort of story. The son-in-law of Egypt’s most revered leader, Abdel Gamal Nasser, and a trusted aide of Anwar Sadat, Ashraf Marwan had been “exposed” five years before as a double agent who had tricked Israel in the opening days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

To the Mossad, however, he was the greatest spy Israel ever had. That is why, among his many operational names as an