The Dollar and the Gun

Fiction. With this collection of short stories, one of Israel’s most controversial and polemnical writers is made available to the British and American reader for the first time. Writing in the most economical of styles, Shlomo Kalo portrays human behaviour influenced by greed, lust and misfortune against a back-drop of contemporary world politics, international conflict and intrigue. Real characters from the present, like Osama bin Laden, mingle with historical figures from the past. Each story has a firm documentary basis, making it a prophetic warning for the future–a precarious future if the primitive lust for power and dominion continues to prevail.