'One of our most consistently brilliant, bold and funny writers' Dave Eggers
'His writing is liberal in every good sense of the word' Jonathan Franzen

A spellbinding thriller. A spy novel. A love story . . .

Prisoner Z, held at a black site in the Negev desert for a dozen years, has only his guard for company. How does a nice American Jewish boy from Long Island wind up an Israeli spy working for Mossad, and later, a traitor to his adopted country? What does it mean to be loyal? And what does it mean to be a traitor when the ideals you cherish are betrayed by the country you love?

'Englander is a wonderfully gifted writer' The Times
'One of the great voices of our time' Gary Shteyngart

"I love that fiction such as this can make you experience so intensely those great subjects with which your real-life familiarity is so very slight" - GUARDIAN

"In these shoots of individual compassion lie the reason Englander always wanted to write this book, and the reason you might wish to read it: hope." - SUNDAY TIMES

"Political thriller, absurdist farce, globetrotting romance: multiple forms jostle in a beautifully written take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" - MAIL ON SUNDAY

"Z can do nothing but think of the past and where her life went wrong, revealed to the reader in a series of often gripping flashbacks" - DAILY MAIL

"full of variety, vitality and passionate prose" - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT