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'The urgent phone call comes from behind the barbed wire.
'This is Ayalon prison,' says one of the guards urgently. 'Listen, he hanged himself, we need an ambulance.'
Prisoner X, just 34 years old, was slumped in a small bathroom, separated from his cell by a transparent door. Kept in one of the most technologically sophisticated solitary jail cells, at the behest of one of the world's most feared intelligence agencies, it is not easy to kill yourself. But Ben Zygier managed to do just that.
Did he work for Mossad? Was he also working for ASIO? Was he involved in the supply of false passports? Was he a whistle blower or double agent, or simply a young man way out of his depth?
In Prisoner X Rafael Epstein uncovers the intriguing story of a young Australian swept up in international intelligence.' (Publication summary)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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[Untitled]
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 August 2014; (p. 24)
— Review of Prisoner X 2014 single work biography -
Mossad's Hasood
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 362 2014; (p. 19)
— Review of Prisoner X 2014 single work biography -
How a Melbourne Boy Became a Mossad Spy
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 April 2014; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Prisoner X 2014 single work biography -
Door to the Truth Remains Closed
Fresh Insight but Questions Remain
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 March 2014; (p. 32-33) The Canberra Times , 22 March 2014; (p. 23) The Age , 22 March 2014; (p. 33)
— Review of Prisoner X 2014 single work biography -
Book Tells a Different Version of Spy Zygier
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 February 2014; (p. 5)
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Door to the Truth Remains Closed
Fresh Insight but Questions Remain
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 March 2014; (p. 32-33) The Canberra Times , 22 March 2014; (p. 23) The Age , 22 March 2014; (p. 33)
— Review of Prisoner X 2014 single work biography -
How a Melbourne Boy Became a Mossad Spy
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 April 2014; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Prisoner X 2014 single work biography -
Mossad's Hasood
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 362 2014; (p. 19)
— Review of Prisoner X 2014 single work biography -
[Untitled]
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 August 2014; (p. 24)
— Review of Prisoner X 2014 single work biography -
Story behind Prisoner X
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 March 2013; (p. 23) -
Ben Zygier's Life and Death to Get Book Treatment
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 13 March 2013; (p. 16) -
TV Series on Life of Mossad Agent Zygier
TV Series to be Based on Prisoner X's Life, Death;
Tales of Israel's Prisoner X is Headed for TV
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 30 December 2013; (p. 7) The Canberra Times , 30 December 2013; (p. 3) The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 December 2013; (p. 2-3) -
Book Tells a Different Version of Spy Zygier
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 February 2014; (p. 5)
Awards
- 2014 longlisted Walkley Award — Best Non-Fiction Book
- Melbourne, Victoria,
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