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Moskowitz Memorial Laboratory janitor Cletus Busters is caught red-handed in a restricted area with the frozen head of Dr. Whitney Valentine, one of the lab's most prestigious researchers. Busters won't say much, except that he's innocent. Given his conspicuous record and past as a voodoo guru, all signs point to life in prison And with the trial less than a week away, his lawyer has made exactly two motionsheading to the bar for several rounds of Wild Turkey and begging Tubby Dubonnet for help. Meanwhile, Tubby's taken on a new clienta female boxer with an abusive boyfriendand referees the romantic entanglements of his ex-wife and three teenage daughters. But as Busters' trial proceeds and the jury savors the startling evidence, the danger mounts. Revealing the murderer could prove to be Tubby's biggest triumphor his last case ever. The bestselling story behind todays headlines! A master spy, three women agents and one traitor. Eli Katzar was the most effective spy in the Israeli espionage networkand his success in a shadowland of undercover thrusts and counterthrusts lay in the brilliant trio of female operatives he had recruited and trained. But now one had betrayed him and his countryand unless he found out who, unbelievable treachery would lead to unthinkable disaster. Code Ezra spans thirty tumultuous years of Israeli history and takes the reader on a spellbinding journey from Alpine climbs to illegal flights over Egypt, from Parisian ateliers to the hear of a Palestinian refugee camp, from Londons West End to the bazaars of Baghdad, from ancient Jerusalem to contemporary New York. Penetrating the core of that most secret of intelligence services, Israels Mossad, Courter show us its innermost workings, revealing he painstaking vetting and training of its agents and the intricate development of their covers. As Courter weaves together the true and the imagined, we share the breathtaking anxieties of the Ezra team members in their double identities as lovers, wives, mothersand spies.