Jacob's Oath (37 page)

MARTIN FLETCHER is one of the world’s most highly respected television news correspondents
(“For decades, Martin Fletcher has been the gold standard of television war correspondents,”
says Anderson Cooper). He is also rapidly gaining an equally impressive reputation
as a writer. He has won many awards, including the National Jewish Book Award, a Columbia
University duPont Award, several Overseas Press Club Awards, and five Emmys. Fletcher
and his wife, Hagar, have raised three sons. He spent many years as the NBC News Bureau
Chief in Tel Aviv and he is currently based in Israel and New York, where he is a
Special Correspondent for NBC News.

Visit his Web site at
www.martinfletcher.net
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed
in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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JACOB’S OATH.
Copyright © 2013 by Martin Fletcher. All rights reserved. For information, address
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Cover design by Steve Snider

Cover photographs: couple © Ismo Holtto/Getty Images; city © Ullstein Bild-Kessler

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Fletcher, Martin, 1947–

   Jacob’s oath: a novel / Martin Fletcher.

         pages  cm

   ISBN 978-1-250-02761-0 (hardcover)

   ISBN 978-1-250-02760-3 (e-book)

1.  Holocaust survivors—Fiction.   2.  Brothers and sisters—Fiction.   3.  Revenge—Fiction.  
4.  Jewish families—Fiction.   I.  Title.

   PS3606.L486J33 2013

e-ISBN 9781250027603

First Edition: October 2013