The English Teacher: A Novel
Written by Yiftach Reicher Atir
Narrated by Charlotte Albanna
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After attending her father's funeral, former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears. But when she makes a cryptic phone call to her former handler, Ehud, the Mossad sends him to track her down. Finding no leads, he must retrace her career as a spy to figure out why she abandoned Mossad before she can do any damage to Israel. But he soon discovers that after living under cover for so long, an agent's assumed identity and her real one can blur, catching loyalty, love, and truth between them. In the midst of a high-risk, high-stakes investigation, Ehud begins to question whether he ever knew his agent at all.
In The English Teacher, Yiftach R. Atir drew on his own experience in intelligence to weave a psychologically nuanced thriller that explores the pressures of living under an assumed identity for months at a time.
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Reviews for The English Teacher
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Unlike most spy fiction, "The English Teacher" (ET) certainly does not glamorize any aspect of spying. Not the life of heroine Rachel, nor the lives of her masters, nor for their missions and the organization for which they work (Israel's Mossad). Actually, by book's end, this reader questioned why anyone want to have anything to do with Mossad.Rachel is a washed up spy at 35. She has worked in an unnamed Arab country for a number of years, has demonstrated craftiness beyond expectation in successfully pulling off several missions. She has played a key role in the execution (my word) of a few taregts. And she fell in love, a Mortal sin. And now after 15 years of semi-retirement, she has disappeared. Her masters are apoplectic with the fear that she could spill her guts to the opposition. Her Mossad contact sits with Joe, the department head, going through her history, and this narration forms a major part of the book. Joe gives the order, "bring her back......"ET has some very interesting moments and the writing is generally pretty good, but on occasion it gets a bit clumsy and unnecessarily difficult to understand, particularly at some scene shifts. It's a sad story, a bit predictable. The book has been a bit over-hyped with tales of 50 +/- reviews and forced changes by the author's former employee (guess who?)but it doesn't feel any more genuine to me than tales from Deighton, Littell, Le Carre. I doubt I'll read another by author Atir.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I liked this book very much and found that, the further I read, the more intrigued I became and the more I wanted to read this novel through to its conclusion. I do love how the author's introduction describes this novel as "And so, this is a true story, of real-life operatives that are wholly made-up, and actual missions that never happened." Spy stories usually don't interest me. The first chapter of this novel was kind of slow. What intrigued me most about it was that it was about an Israeli Mossad agent whose story was told through her handler. Not knowing much about espionage at all, I was interested in the professional relationship between the handler Ehud and his operative Rachel. I thought that this story was told from a very interesting perspective. The story seemed very real, but I'm not sure I can buy into a particular decision Rachel made near the end of the book. I found this story tense and thrilling and would recommend this book to those who like to read books by Israeli authors or who like to read novels about the Mossad or about espionage in general.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5So depressing!