Operation Thunderbolt

Long fuse. Slow burn. Big bang. A Krakatoa of a tale. - Damien Lewis, author of Operation Certain Death

Totally thrilling, totally poignant. Bringing the greatest special forces operation of modern times blazingly to life, David’s book, full of new revelations, written with the excitement of an action-movie, the authority of a historian, is great drama, superb storytelling - and yet tells us much about the Middle East today. - Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem

Combining exceptional research with gripping storytelling, Saul David’s Operation Thunderbolt is an unputdownable account of perhaps the most extraordinary Special Forces mission in history. I loved it. - Rowland White, author of ‘Vulcan 607’

A brilliant, breathless account that reads like the plot of an action movie. - Sunday Telegraph

Better than fiction can ever hope to be and true to Saul David’s characteristically authentic style, this breathtakingly tense and incredibly moving account of history’s most audacious Special Forces operation is one of the best true stories I’ve ever read. Gritty, visceral and edge-of-the-seat dramatic, Operation Thunderbolt ticks all the boxes and is destined to be one of the military history classics of the decade. - Major Chris Hunter, author of Broadcaster and Former Special Forces Bomb Disposal Operator. - Major Chris Hunter, author of Eight Lives Down

Gripping… will introduce a whole new generation of readers to an extraordinary story… The climax of the rescue itself is brilliantly told; nearly 40 years on, you still heave a sigh of relief when the last when the last Hercules lifts off from the Entebbe runway and lumbers off into the night and a new daw for the hostages - and for Israel. - Jewish Chronicle

It’s a brilliantly orchestrated book, wonderfully rich in detail, but at the same time roaring along at a heart-thumping pace… I embarked on this book as someone not particularly interested in the Middle East, or in adventure tales of soldiers in action; I finished it in a state of high tension, buzzing through the pages in the need to know what happened next. - Mail on Sunday

For the first time in my reading life I felt physically thrilled by a book… Wonderful. - Literary Review