History Literature / Triple

* SexualKarma: Nat and Suza. Inverted with Rostov and his mistress, who are both very ''bad'' people, but still manage to have good sex (maybe because EvilIsSexy).

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Nat and Suza. Inverted with Rostov and his mistress, who are both very ''bad'' people, but still manage to have good sex (maybe because EvilIsSexy).

* [[spoiler:IntimatePsychotherapy: This is how Suza resolves Nat's frigidity, the result of the experiments he was forced to participate in while in the concentration camp.]]

* UsefulNotes/ColdWar: The setting against which our heroes and villains maneuver.

* WorldWar2: Invoked- Dickstein and Cortone are survivors.

* ColdWar: The setting against which our heroes and villains maneuver.

** In a similar incident, Rostov's team atages a hit and run to cripple a sailor, so one of their men can go to sea in his place.

* {{Jerkass}}: Pierre Borg, full stop.

* WhatAPieceOfJunk: MV ''Coparelli'', the freighter that hauls the uranium Dickstein plans to steal.

In 1968, Nathaniel "Nat" Dickstein, aka "The Pirate", is an Israeli Mossad agent tasked to secretly steal enough uranium for the Jewish state to produce its own nuclear bombs. He must accomplish this before Egypt can finish building its own bomb, which would surely be used to wipe Israel off the map. Dickstein's mission is complicated by opposition from his old acquaintances David Rostov and Yasif Hassan, once Oxford students, now spies like himself- one in the KGB, the other Egyptian Intelligence. Most dangerous of all, Dickstein falls in love- with the half-Arab Suza Ashford, who Nat's boss assumes is an enemy agent. Will Dickstein be able to get the uranium his country needs and still save the girl?

* [[spoiler:IntimateHealing: This is how Suza resolves Nat's frigidity, the result of the experiments he was forced to participate in while in the concentration camp.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Just before that, Dickstein went on one when he believed Suza had betrayed him.

In 1968, Nathaniel "Nat" Dickstein, aka "The Pirate", is an Israeli agent tasked to secretly steal enough uranium for the Jewish state to produce its own nuclear bombs. He must accomplish this before Egypt can finish building its own bomb, which, once completed, would surely be used to wipe Israel off the map. Dickstein's mission is complicated by opposition from his old acquaintances David Rostov and Yasif Hassan, who he met as Oxford students, now spies like himself- one in the KGB, the other Egyptian Intelligence. Most dangerous of all, Dickstein falls in love- with the daughter of his old Oxford professor, a half-Arab girl who Nat's boss assumes is an enemy agent. Will Dickstein be able to get the uranium his country needs, save the girl, and pull it all off secretly?

* BadassBookworm: Nat looks like a shorter John Lennon, including the glasses, borrowed books even faster than he could read them, and both speaks and reads Hebrew. He can also snap necks.

* ChekhovsGunman: Everyone Dickstein knew in 1948 comes back to either help or haunt him.

* DoubleAgent: Hassan works for both Egyptian Intelligence and the Palestinian Fedayeen. After Suza falls for Nathanial, she is forced to play [[DoubleAgent double agent]] when Hassan and her father, assuming she is loyal to the Arab side, want her to help Hassan foil Dickstein's uranium theft.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Dickstein goes on one when he believes Suza has betrayed him.

* POWCamp: Nat survived the concentration camps, although "survived" is a generous description considering the psychological damage he suffered.[[spoiler: Not until he meets Suza does he fully recover.]]

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Dickstein and Rostov played a famous chess match as students, before they became spies. Rostov's youngest son plays chess against his father, mother, and older brother ''simultaneously'', beating all three.
* WhatAPieceOfJunk: The MV''Coparelli'', the freighter that is hauling the uranium Dickstein plans to steal.

* XanatosSpeedChess: The book reads as one long game of this.

** Professor Ashford betrays one of his old students to another basically as an intellectual exercise, knowing full well that it will mean his death.
* JerkassWoobie: Yasif Hassan is ready to torture and kill in revenge for the Jews taking over Palestine, where he didn't actually live for years in any case.