In 1977, Israel's Mossad spy agency was given an assignment far different from its usual cloak and dagger activities. It was ordered by then Prime Minister Menachem Begin to rescue thousands of Ethopian Jewish refugees in Suda and "deliver them to me" in the Jewish state. No stranger to to action in enemy countries, the agency established a covert forward base in a deserted holiday village in Suda, and deployed a handful of operatives to launch and oversee the exodus of the refugees to the Promised Land, by sea and by air, in the early 1980s. Gad Shimron, the author of this book, was one of their number.