Mitla Pass by Leon Uris

A troubled American Jewish novelist travels to Israel during the 1956 Sinai campaign to cover the war, joining a paratroop unit headed toward a perilous desert pass. As he confronts danger and moral ambiguity, the story intercuts his family’s immigrant past, his rise and excesses in Hollywood, and the collapse of his marriage, tracing a search for identity and purpose that culminates in a harrowing battle and an intimate reckoning with heritage, ambition, and belonging.

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