Limassol

A secret service interrogator who is dedicated to his work—thwarting suicide bombings—but is suffering from burnout, is given an unusual mission. He is to study creative writing with a Tel Aviv author who is active in the Peace movement, and through her, to reach a poet friend of hers, who is terminally ill in Gaza and whose son is a suspect. He becomes involved in the writer’s life, arranges for the poet to be treated in Israel, and also has to save Dafna—the writer’s—son who has become a drug addict and mixes in dangerous circles.

During the course of his mission in Limassol, he will finally have to choose between his professional loyalties and the new human bonds he has formed. And from within his nervously exhausting routine of secrecy and violence, he will get an opportunity to rediscover his inner self. In Limassol, Sarid has written a well-paced and gripping literary thriller, which is also a journey to the shadowy side of the conflicted Israeli mind.

French Grand Prix Policière for Best Foreign Crime Novel, 2011
Shortlisted for the prestigious Impac Award, 2012
Italian Maria Giorgetti International Award, 2013