Mordechai Vanunu worked as a technician at Israel's top-secret Dimona nuclear research complex for nine years before being dismissed in 1985 for pro-Arab sympathies. He left Israel on a journey that finished in Sydney, Australia, where he became friends with a clergyman, John McKnight. As a result of his conversion to Christianity, he decided to expose Israel's clandestine activities. Retaliation was swift and ruthless. Vanunu was kipnapped by Mossad agents and tried behind the closed doors of a Jerusalem courtroom. Convicted for espionage, treason and betraying state secrets, he was sentenced to 18 years in jail. Despite being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and having his case taken up by the European Parliament, Vanunu's appeals against the sentence have been rejected and he remains in solitary confinement, forbidden to speak even to the priest who brings him communion. This is his story, originally published in 1991, now with a new epilogue.
- ISBN10 0006278469
- ISBN13 9780006278467
- Publish Date March 1995 (first published 11 January 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Fount
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 192
- Language English