the LAST SECRET: Man Who Told World

He exposed Israel's nuclear weapons to the world. He paid for it with eighteen years in prison. But the secret he never told - that was the one that cost him everything. On October 5, 1986, the Sunday Times of London published photographs that revealed Israel's most closely guarded secret: a nuclear weapons programme concealed beneath the Negev Desert. The man who took the photographs was Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at the Dimona reactor. He was arrested, tried in secret, and sentenced to eighteen years - eleven of them in solitary confinement. The world called him a whistleblower. A traitor. A martyr. He was something the world never knew. The Last Secret follows Mordechai from the narrow streets of the Marrakesh mellah to the sealed levels of the Dimona reactor, from Sydney to London to a Rome apartment where a woman named Diane was waiting - through the glass box of a secret trial and into the long silence of a cell where a light never turned off. At every stage, a single question grows heavier: when the truth you told was also the truth you were used to tell, what remains of the telling? Because a Mossad colonel named Drori had seen him coming. Had needed someone exactly like him. Had made him an offer disguised as a conscience. What followed was eighteen years of imprisonment that were also, in ways no one outside the arrangement could know, something else entirely. Rooted in the documented historical record and propelled by a fictional premise of devastating moral complexity, The Last Secret is a novel about conscience and complicity, about the price of disclosure and the deeper cost of silence - about a man who became a symbol before he understood what he was a symbol of, and who spent eighteen years working out the difference between a choice and a design. This is the story of Mordechai Vanunu as it has never been told. Because it could only be told as fiction. Based on the documented historical record of Mordechai Vanunu. The central premise is a work of imagination.

Pages: 178, Paperback, Independently published