From Book\'s back cover: Shortly after midday on 27 June 2007, a man plummets from his fifth-floor London flat.
He is the author of The Fifty Years War (with Jihan el-Tahri), the companion book to a six-part BBC / PBS television documentary, Elusive Peace, the companion book to a three-part B.
In the late 1980s, he left Israel in protest at the military\'s violent suppression of the Palestinian uprising (the intifada) against the Israeli occupation and settled in the UK, where he completed a doctorate in War Studies.
It is based on my diary notes; together with messages I sent Marwan over the years they tell the inside story of my Relationship with the spy some call the greatest Secret Agent of the twentieth century About the Author: Ahron (Ronnie) Bregman was born in 1958 in Israel, where he served in the army, reached the rank of captain and took part in the 1982 war in Lebanon.
This is the story of what came to be known as \'The Marwan Affair\', which shocked the public and the Intelligence community.
Around the time we are due to meet, Marwan\'s body is found in the private rose garden below his flat in central London.
It never takes place.
We schedule it for the next day.
He is anxious and shaken and he asks for an urgent face-to-face meeting.
The day before he plunges to his death, Marwan phones.
We met, became friends, and then kept in touch for almost five years.
Soon after I exposed him, Marwan made contact.
But there is a twist - one that even the most audacious writer of fiction might baulk at.
A few years before, I blew Marwan\'s cover, unmasking him as a top spy who had been working for Egypt\'s biggest enemy - Israel.
But that is only part of the tale, for Marwan was also an international businessman and arms dealer, married to Mona Abdel Nasser, daughter of the legendary Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
His name is Ashraf Marwan.
Did he jump or was he pushed? He is identified as an Egyptian millionaire who has been living in the UK since the early 1980s.
From Book\'s back cover: Shortly after midday on 27 June 2007, a man plummets from his fifth-floor London flat
