Gideon Zadok arrives in Israel with every intention to research a new
book, mend a broken marriage, and improve his dysfunctional family. But
as political tensions escalate and his family is evacuated, Zadok asks
to follow Israeli paratroopers to secure Mitla Pass and finds himself in
the midst of one of the largest global crises of the twentieth century.
A sweeping novel of love, passion, and freedom, Mitla Pass stands as
an epic look at modern Middle Eastern history and is quite possibly
Uris's most autobiographical work.
From Library Journal
Against the backdrop of the 1956 Sinai War, Uris provides a riveting
portrait (possibly autobiographical) of a man caught in personal crisis.
Gideon Zadok, best-selling novelist and successful Hollywood
screenwriter, has come to Israel with his family to research a new novel
and to shore up a crumbling marriage. But he jeopardizes that by
starting a passionate affair with a beautiful Auschwitz survivor. Zadok
is a man wavering on the edge of a breakdown. As the political crisis
escalates, and his family is evacuated, Zadok asks to accompany Israeli
paratroopers on a desperate mission to seal off the strategic Mitla
Pass. The Uris name will make this book much in demand, and if it is not
as much of an epic as Exodus or Trinity, it has in Zadok Uris's most
fascinating character.
