Wonderful The New York TimesCharlie a jobbing young English actress is accustomed to playing different roles But when the mysterious battlescarred Joseph recruits her into the Israeli secret services she enters the dangerous theatre of the real As she acts out her part in an intricate highstakes plot to trap and kill a Palestinian terrorist it threatens to consume herSet in the tragic arena of the Middle East conflict this compelling story of love and torn loyalties plays out against the backdrop of an unwinnable war The Little Drummer Girl is about spies as Madame Bovary is about adultery or Crime and Punishment about crime The New York Times
