Maror von Lavie Tidhar

How do you build a nation? It takes statesmen and soldiers, farmers and factory workers, of course. But it also takes thieves, prostitutes and policemen. Nation-building demands sacrifice. And one man knows exactly where those bodies are buried: Cohen, a man who loves his country. A car bomb in the back streets of Tel Aviv. A diamond robbery in Haifa. Civil war in Lebanon. A double murder in Los Angeles. How do they all connect? Only Cohen knows. Set in Israel across four decades.