One Step Ahead

When the Lebanese militant organization Hezbollah abandoned smartphones in favor of "untraceable" pagers, its commanders believed they had finally escaped Israeli intelligence.They were wrong.FROM ETHAN HAREL - a writer with firsthand access to people connected to the real operation - comes the classified story behind one of the boldest intelligence missions of the century.When a young Mossad officer, Yael, discovers a narrow and nearly impossible opportunity to turn thousands of enemy pagers into synchronized remote-triggered bombs, she's dismissed, doubted, and nearly shut down. The idea is too dangerous. The risk is too high. One mistake could expose the entire Israeli operation - and cost lives.But she refuses to back down.What follows is a gripping real-world espionage saga: deep-cover meetings across Europe, high-stakes surveillance inside Beirut, digital warfare against Iranian operatives, and a deception campaign so seamless that Hezbollah never saw it coming.On September 17, 2024, thousands of pagers exploded across Lebanon in the exact same second - shocking the world.ONE STEP AHEAD reveals the secret mission, the two women who engineered it, and the creative brilliance inside the Mossad that rewrote the rules of modern intelligence.A pulse-pounding espionage thriller based on true events that changed the Middle East - forever.