HOFFER AWARD WINNER - TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Karl Lustig is a world-weary consultant and sometime blogger who believes he is in control of his fate. His settled life is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious piece of jewelry, end-product of a chain of events set in motion more than four decades earlier. Rooted in real events and set against the backdrop of Israel's emergence as a nuclear power, BASHERT, Yiddish for fated, is a geopolitical thriller that caroms between continents and bounces between time frames. From MIT to the Middle East, from college days to an uncertain present, it is the story of three people whose lives are intertwined by destiny and by unseen direction. Newly re-edited and reset, the tenth anniversary edition incorporates additional material.