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rheren's review against another edition
3.0
I liked this overall, although it was not perfect. It was unabashedly pro-Israeli, but that was expected and didn't put me off: in context here I think explaining the desperation of the Entebbe raid demands a serious explanation of the existential threat Israel faced, and had faced for the 15 years up to that point. It explains the motivation behind the whole thing. The structure of the book was a little chaotic, jumping around a lot, and it does feel like a lot of political lead-up whereas the action itself is breezed through and touched on only briefly. That was somewhat disappointing, not that I wanted a thriller, but I would've liked some more detail on how exactly the operation went down and what everyone was doing. It might've just been published before all of that was de-classified, and he was just writing what he could at the time.
srikkanthan's review against another edition
3.0
This is one of those real life, historical events which is almost unbelievable or impractical. The book is tiring to read, as the elaborate descriptions of various important people, their feelings, the mood is described for several tens of pages. However its a must read.
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