One of Roth's grand inventions... [He is] a comic genius. -The New York Review of BooksA brilliant novel of ideas... Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before. -The NationThe uncontested master of comic irony. -TimeDiabolically clever, engaging... [A] white-water unstoppable narrative... Roth is so spelndidly convincing... that the result is kind of a dizzying exhilaration. -The Boston GlobeIn this fiendishly imaginative book (which may or may not be ficftion), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring Israel, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is intent on stopping him, even if that means impersonating his own impersonator. With excruciating suspense, unfettered philosophical speculation, and a cast of characters that includes Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites Anonymous, Operation Shylock barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy, history and nightmare.