ISIS boasted an astonishing $2.4 billion of revenue in 2015 — just one example of how the global war on terror has largely neglected what should be its biggest target: the money trail. One country, however, has taken the lead in this major new front of unconventional warfare: Israel. With the creation of its top-secret “Harpoon” program, led by legendary Mossad boss Meir Dagan, Israel began directing spies, soldiers, and attorneys to disrupt and destroy money pipelines and financial institutions that paid for the bloodshed perpetrated by Hamas, Hezbollah, and other groups. Its successful efforts have now become a blueprint for the U.S.’s own fight against terror and other criminal enterprises. 

Written by an attorney who worked alongside Israel’s intelligence community and a bestselling author, Harpoon offers a globetrotting story of the Israeli-led covert effort, now joined by the Americans, to choke off the terrorists’ oxygen supply, money, via unconventional warfare. Among the many revelations in Harpoon, authors Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Samuel M. Katz show how Hamas was being funded through U.S.-based charitable donations diverting to supporting suicide bombings and terrorist attacks inside Israel — including attacks that resulted in the deaths of American citizens. Harpoon efforts shut down these programs with spy thrilling dare while lawyers won devastating rulings in federal court in New York against major Arab banks that helped launder terror money.

Harpoon is published by the Hachette Book Group.