The Betrayers frank marr Lazar weaves scenes from these

Lazar weaves scenes from these real lives together into a true but heightened reality

I had my Ferrari stolen right from under my nose

John Updike

but he also has rage

whether we are aware of them or not

The Betrayers frank marr Lazar weaves scenes from theseThese incandescent pages give us one fraught, momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a Soviet Jewish dissident who now finds himself a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the settlements in the West Bank, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior, and the besieged couple escapes to Yalta, the faded Crimean resort of Kotler's youth. There,