Hesh Kestin
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Hesh Kestin was for two decades a foreign correspondent, reporting from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa on war, international security, terrorism, arms dealing, espionage, and often equally shadowy global business. Formerly the London-based European correspondent for Forbes, he is a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces. As a citizen of both the US and Israel, for eighteen years it was common for Kestin to come home to his family from active duty in the IDF, then change into civilian clothes to return to the same battlefields as a correspondent. “You never stop being afraid,” he says today. “But having grown up in a Brooklyn neighborhood where every day was a war, I had a unique advantage: I was used to it.” After hanging up his trenchcoat, Kestin published three works of fiction before perpetrating THE SIEGE OF TEL AVIV. They are: BASED ON A TRUE STORY, a collection of three novellas set in Kenya, Polynesia and Hollywood on the eve of World War II; THE IRON WILL OF SHOESHINE CATS, a novel of the sixties underworld in New York; and THE LIE, a serious novel disguised as a thriller, set in present-day Israel, which deals with the emotional costs of never-ending war. The father of five, Kestin lives close to New York City in a very quiet village where, he reports, gunfire is blessedly rare.
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    • The Lie

    • A Novel
    • Written by: Hesh Kestin
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2014-03-11
    • Language: English
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