Mitla Pass Author:Leon Uris With unequaled power and overwhelming emotion, Leon Uris gies us Mitla Pass, the impassioned story of Gideon Zadok, a modern man trapped by his own contradictions: ambition and fear; desire and obligation; the past and his future. Woven into a tapestry of voices - Gideons, his family's, his wife's and friends' Uris takes us from the pogram-curs... more »ed Russian shtetls to the American dream; from Hollywood to its heyday to the new state of Israel in 1956.« less