Revenge: A Story of Hope

Ten years after a member of the PLO rebel faction shoots and wounds her father, Laura Blumenfeld decides to investigate. Traveling through Europe, America, and the Middle East, Blumenfeld takes "lessons in revenge" as she gathers stories and methods of avengers worldwide to infiltrate the shooter's life. Based on interviews with Yitzhak Rabin's assassin, members of the Albanian Blood Feud Committee, the chief of the Iranian judiciary, a mayor in Sicily, an Egyptian hashish smuggler, fifth-grade girls, prostitutes, and many more, Blumenfeld defines the mechanics of revenge. In the end, her target turns out to be more complex - and more threatening - than she'd long imagined. A rare, ambitious, personal, and intellectual tour of the dark urges that haunts us all, Revenge created a national phenomenon that takes readers beyond loyalty and home and into the personal passions that divide love and hate.