The Reckoning: How the Killing of One Man Changed the Fate of the Promised Land

As the world plunged into global conflict, in British governed Palestine a killing took place that shook British and Middle Eastern politics.

While in neighbouring Egypt, British forces were confronting Rommel's Afrika Korps, a series of robberies in Palestine by the militant Zionists of the Stern Gang, led by the charismatic Avraham Stern -- known as 'the light' by his followers, began a war with their colonial governors. Soon they had targeted and killed policemen, initiating a huge manhunt amid Tel-Aviv's hotbed of suspicion, violence and fanaticism.

Assistant Superintendent Geoffrey Morton, a middle-class Londoner who had swapped milk deliveries for the excitements and dangers of colonial policing, was the man tasked with stopping Stern. When finally he succeeded, his shots would echo through the years. 'The Reckoning' is the tale of the man who terrorised Israel, the man determined to prevent him, and the creation of a cult of...