Vengeance (Jonas book)

{{Short description|1984 book}}

{{Infobox book |

| name = Vengeance

| image = Vengeance George Jonas book 1984 first edition.jpg

| caption = First edition (1984)

| author = George Jonas

| country = United States

| language = English

| genre = Narrative nonfiction

| publisher = Simon & Schuster

| release_date = 1984

| media_type = Print Paperback

| pages = 376

| isbn = 0-671-50611-0

| dewey = 956/.04 19

| congress = DS119.7 .J55 1984

| oclc = 10507421

}}

Vengeance is a 1984 book by George Jonas describing part of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre. It was re-released as Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team or Vengeance: Sword of Gideon in some later editions and countries.

The main source of the book is also the main character, Yuval Aviv, known in the book as Avner. A Mossad officer, he is recruited to lead a small team into Europe to assassinate a number of suspected PLO and Black September militants. Each of the book's chapters deals with a separate stage of the mission, including the background to each assassination. It has inspired both a 1986 made for television movie called Sword of Gideon and the 2005 Steven Spielberg film Munich.{{cite news|last=Jonas|first=George|title=The Spielberg massacre|url=http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20060109_119330_119330&source=srch|newspaper=Maclean's|date=January 7, 2006}}