''Vengeance'' is a 1984 book by

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describing part of

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, the Israeli assassination campaign launched after the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. It was re-released as ''Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team'' or ''Vengeance: Sword of Gideon'' in some later editions and countries. The main source of the book is also the main character,

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, known in the book as Avner. A Mossad officer, he is recruited to lead a small team into

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to assassinate a number of suspected PLO and Black September militants. Each of the book's chapters deals with a separate stage of the mission, including the background to each assassination. It has inspired both a 1986

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called '' Sword of Gideon'' and the 2005 Steven Spielberg film ''

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''.

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1984 non-fiction books Books about counterterrorism Books about terrorism Books about the Mossad Non-fiction books adapted into films Operation Wrath of God {{MEast-hist-book-stub