“Just tell me once, and answer me honestly,” Snir demanded, fixing his friend with a penetrating stare. “Doesn’t your conscience bother you about betraying your homeland?”

Ronen looked away for a long moment, his gaze drifting out through the window overlooking the mine.

Then he turned back. “I’m sorry, Snir. I don’t have such a thing as a conscience.”

Loss haunts Snir Gefen, from his past and present, threatening to bring him and his family to the brink of collapse.

Each battle tests his values, forcing him to make impossible choices: as a man, as a son, and as a Mossad agent.

The story moves between Israel and Azerbaijan, against the backdrop of Azerbaijan’s decades-long conflict with neighboring Armenia. At its center lies Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region steeped in blood and betrayal where one wrong step can ignite war.

Debts. Betrayals. Schemes. Loyalty. Friendship. And above all — family. All woven together in a story that lays bare the values, choices, and loyalties that define each person.

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Snir Gefen, deputy to Unit Commander Doron Biran (the hero of Final Reckoning), takes center stage in the second stand-alone adventure in Raz Lev Ari’s enthralling spy-thriller series.