01 / 08Hot
G19 · GEN5 MOSGlock 19
Yoav's sidearm
- Target
- Baruch Asulin
- Scene
- An alley in Jaffa, in the rain
- Chapter
- 1
Tonight he preferred death clean, from a safe distance.
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He's the assassin.
She's the hunter.
Friendly Fire
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The story
Jaffa, Israel.
Yoav is a decorated patrol cop by day and “the Shadow” by night, a phantom assassin taking out the crime bosses the system is blind to. His wife Dana leads the task force closing in on him, never suspecting that her number-one enemy sleeps beside her. On October 7, the lie shatters.
By day14:00 · Patrol car
Decorated
patrol cop
Sgt. Maj. Yoav Ben-David · Yiftach Station
Loving husband. Outstanding officer. The man everyone wants beside them in the patrol car.
GPS · Yiftach Station · Filing reports
By night02:00 · Location unknown
The Shadow
A phantom assassin taking out the crime bosses the system is blind to.
GPS · Yiftach Station· Real location:
He's the most wanted assassin in Israel. She's the Major Crimes officer sworn to catch him. And at night — they're married.
Personal file · 01
Dana
Dana
Ben-David
Supt. · Head of the investigation team, Major Crimes
The officer sworn to catch the Shadow. She closes in on him step by step, never suspecting that her number-one enemy sleeps beside her.
Dana knew she was no longer the prey. She was the hunter.
Personal file · 02
Yoav
Yoav
Ben-David
Sgt. Maj. · Patrol officer, Yiftach Station
A decorated cop by day, a phantom assassin by night. A loving husband holding two lives in steady hands, until October 7 shatters the wall.
The muscles of his face obeyed an assassin's command.
Open file
Evidence · 8 items
The arsenal: Hot and cold
Every weapon is a story, and every story is an open file on Dana's desk.
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G19 · GEN5 MOS02 / 08Hot
M1A1 · 60 MM1 carbine
Scrap from the “volunteers' armory”, with the duty officer's key
- Target
- “The Engineer”
- Scene
- An abandoned rooftop in Jaffa, in broad daylight
- Chapter
- 6
Nobody goes looking for a sniper using a World War II rifle.
03 / 08Hot
SIG CROSS · 382 MSIG CROSS
Zeroed at 382 meters
- Target
- Nadav “the Butcher” Danon
- Scene
- Shabbat dinner, in the middle of “Shalom Aleichem”
- Chapter
- 15
Danon dies Friday night. Tomorrow.
04 / 08Hot
FIVE-SEVENFN Five-seveN
The safe room, Saturday morning
- Scene
- The kibbutz house, October 7
- Chapters
- 34-35
I swore no one would hurt you or this child. And I'm a monster who keeps his promises.
05 / 08Cold
KHARMA · GEN.2“Karma” karambit
Israeli steel, black and brutal
- Target
- Shimon “the Abacus” Abutbul
- Scene
- The Kaplan protest, a hundred thousand people
- Chapter
- 9
The crowd around him didn't see a murder; they saw a collapse.
06 / 08Cold
RIFFE EURO 120Speargun
Teak. No noise. No fire.
- Target
- Vladimir “the Bear” Ivanov
- Scene
- From the sea, onto the yacht's deck
- Chapter
- 17
His voice was flat, accentless, and colder than the seawater.
07 / 08Cold
AIRCRAFT CABLE 1.5MMSteel wire
“Ajami's iron collar”
- Target
- Suleiman
- Scene
- Ajami, Jaffa
- Chapters
- 22-23
A tool used by the most brutal hit squads of the Sinaloa cartel.
08 / 08Cold
KHAOS · GEN.2“Khaos” karambit
The zero-range weapon
- Scene
- From Ajami to the safe room
- Chapters
- 22 and 34
It was a karambit from hell.
The map from Asulin's iPhone
The kill
The kill
files
Five open files on Dana's desk. The same shadow behind all of them.
File 01 · Chapter 1
Baruch Asulin
“The Arbiter”
Built an empire on the blood of collapsing business owners, blackmailed judges and closed-casket funerals.
- Scene
- An alley in Jaffa, in the rain
- Evidence
- His iPhone vanished
File 02 · Chapter 6
“The Engineer”
State's witness
A safe house, guards all around. Nobody looked at the rooftops.
- Scene
- Abandoned rooftop, 60 meters
- Time
- Broad daylight
File 03 · Chapter 9
Shimon Abutbul
“The Abacus”
The legendary accountant of the most feared organization in the Triangle.
- Scene
- Kaplan protest
- Witnesses
- A hundred thousand. Nobody saw
File 04 · Chapter 15
Nadav Danon
“The Butcher”
The man who approved a remote-detonated bomb in the middle of a civilian street.
- Scene
- Shabbat dinner, 382 meters
- Tower
- The water tower
File 05 · Chapter 17
Vladimir Ivanov
“The Bear”
Head of the Russian mafia in Ashdod. The only man who faced the Shadow and lived.
- Scene
- The yacht, from the sea
- Reason
- A loose end
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From the book · Chapter 3
The IT department
And his heart dropped straight to the concrete floor.
Two meters away, flicking an old Zippo, stood Ron. The legendary intelligence officer of Major Crimes, the man who had taught Yoav how to read a liar's eyes. Ron's piercing eyes were fixed on him now like laser sights. In the IT department. Outside a storeroom he had no business being near.
The weight of the adapter in his pocket suddenly felt like a hundred kilos of lead dragging him down. It was over.
“Yoav?” Ron's voice was rough as asphalt. “What are you looking for here, brother? This hallway leads to the scrap room. There's nothing here. Nothing at all.”
Every warning light in Yoav's brain was screaming, but the muscles of his face obeyed an assassin's command. A look of sheepish confusion spread across his face.
“This maze of yours...” Yoav raised his left hand. “I brought Dana sushi. I was looking for a bin to toss the leftovers without stinking up her case files, and I took a wrong turn.”
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Saturday, October 7. 06:00. The house on the kibbutz.
He sipped his coffee. Bitter and good. He truly, honestly believed he had won.
The air tore open.
CRASH!
07:32 · The safe room
Orange sparks began to light the bottom of the door. The steel was starting to melt.
“Close your eyes, Dana.
And cover your ears.
Daddy and husband is going to work.”
The Shadow is back.
Dana's decision
Now, with blood on the floor and Dana's brother abducted into Gaza, she faces an impossible decision.
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