The Book of Yael

About the Book

A young woman writes in her diary. She is an Israeli who is smart, strong and attractive. But things are not always what they seem. She is an agent of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service. And as we read her words, a powerful story unfolds about a special mission she is given, one that takes her to Germany and the USA.

Yael works in a world still dominated by men, and she is used to moving in this world smoothly and with confidence. But this mission brings huge changes.

Thrown into the whirlwind of modern German and American societies, Yael finds there strength and weakness, sadness and humor. She finds there other Jews as well, and the differences between these "diaspora" Jews and those in her homeland are fascinating and at times even comic. But her greatest discoveries are the things she learns about herself.

Yael's mission takes her to three continents, and pulls her into an adventure that will change her life. She enters a complex and deadly world where choices are not always clear, and where the line between national security, and personal revenge is often blurred. Yael finds she must draw on a special kind of strength. On her journey Yael is thrown into the stormy worlds of contemporary Germany and the USA. These worlds test and challenge her notions of society and relationships, and bring home to her the powerful difference between cultures. As this modern Jewish woman encounters the danger and violence of her mission, she also encounters the alien Jewish community of the USA, a community nested in the seeming comfort of the USA where things are not always what they seem.

Fast moving and riveting, The Book of Yael touches something in each of us.

About the Author

Daniel Livny, son of Holocaust survivors, was born in Israel. He served many years as an officer in the Israeli military and the Israeli Defense Department. He fought as combat officer in three wars, taking part in numerous actions behind enemy lines. Daniel studied Mathematics and Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Science and Literature at the University of Washington, and Medicine at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Today, Daniel resides in the Rocky Mountains of the USA where he is involved in the fields of Theoretical Physics and Nanotechnology.