Mitla Pass by Uris, Leon - 1989

Bantam Books. Very Good. 1989. Paperback. The spine and both covers, next to the spine, are creased from reading. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages and binding are tight. All three page edges are a bit dingy. The edges of the covers are scuffed from shelf wear. The upper right corner of the front cover is creased and the glossy paper on the tip of the lower right corner is rubbed-away. The tip of the upper left corner on the back cover is creased and the spine is curved from reading. ; Thick 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 495 pages; In this semi-autobiographical story, unhappy novelist Gideon Zadok parachutes, on the eve of the 1956 Sinai War, into Mitla Pass with a company of Israeli soldiers to face his past and prove his courage. 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. There is a section at the back of story that has excerpts from some of his other books: BATTLE CRY; EXODUS; QB VII; MILA 18; THE ANGRY HILLS; TOPAZ; TRINITY; THE HAJ; and MITLA PASS. Will combine shipping on more than one book. .