Lion of God: Episode II
Written by
Stephen England
Copyright 2016
Episode 2 of 3 in the trilogy later republished in the collection .
"New Year's Eve, 2000. The end of an old year, the dawn of a new. But man never changes. . . And in the Middle East, the frail peace of the new millennium's earliest months has now been shattered by the savagery of a growing intifada, violence which first gripped the world with the brutal lynching of Israeli reservists in the West Bank city of
Ramallah now spilling into the streets. In the wake of Ramallah, the Mossad dispatched a Kidon team led by a young assassin named Ariel, the "Lion of God", to Europe to track down and kill Mustafa al-Shukeiri, the man responsible for the lynchings. A mission which ended in blood and fire one dark night on the Mediterranean island of Elba."