In the first chapters Pierre Bourg, the head of the Mossad, finds out in 1968 that Egypt is building a nuclear reactor in the Western Desert, in order to produce a nuclear bomb. He assigns his best agent, Nat Dickstein, to steal about two hundred tons of uranium ore for Israel, to pre-empt the potential Egyptian threat and to enable them to build a nuclear bomb themselves. Dickstein has to ensure that nobody suspects Israeli participation in the theft.
