A bedsit in Tufnell Park, an unremark-able suburb of north London, seems an unlikely setting for an espionage thriller about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Until the hero, Michel, who is a survivor of the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, takes out a bundle of fake passports and foreign currency from a secret alcove in the bathroom and goes to work. Mischa Hiller's debut, "Sabra Zoo", a chilling rites-of-passage novel set in Beirut in 1982 during the killings in the camps, was highly praised. "Shake Off" builds on that success.
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