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''Shake Off'' is the latest from the pen of Mischa HellerHiller, a student of the John Le Carre universe where the Spies had to Come In From The Cold. Set in the 80s against a backdrop of daggers and cloaks, wests and easts and defectors and double agents, HellerHiller's protagonist, Michel Khoury, hooked on pain killers and posing as a student, has been tasked with the unlikely mission of scouting for a Cambridge location in which to host secret talks between those Palestinians and Israelis who seek a ''secular democratic state for Jews, Christians and Muslims''.
In a Le Carresque landscape of anonymous calls from phone boxes and dead letter drops, Michel, a displaced Palestinian who has been fortunate enough to be taken under the wing of wealthy adoptive parents, who in turn were PLO funded by a man known only as 'Abu-Leila', would not sit out of place. Dedicated and grateful, Michel's multilingualism honed in the years since his espousal, has made him the perfect foot-soldier for Abu-Leila and The Old Man.
