Chasing shadows
a special agent's lifelong hunt to bring a Cold War assassin to justice
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Author
Contributions
- Bruning, John - Contributor
Publication
2012 - Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, England
Language
English
Word Count
64,500 words, Guess
Page Count
258 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivechasingshadowssp0000burt_c9r5
- ISBN-100230339913
- ISBN-139780230339910
- OCLC Control Number793213274
- Better World Books9780230339910
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28242106M
Classifications
- DDC364.1523092
- LCCJK468.I6
Description
"There's nothing like opening a cold terrorism case and finally finding the truth, one that will open the door to what we're up against today. Burton's done it with gripping narrative, and a straight-shooting style."--Robert Baer, author of See No Evil and The Company We Keep On a warm Saturday night in July 1973 in Bethesda, Maryland, a gunman stepped out from behind a tree and fired five point-blank shots into Joe Alon, an unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot and family man. Alon's sixteen-year-old neighbor, Fred Burton, was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his sleepy suburban neighborhood. As it turned out, Alon wasn't just a pilot - he was a high-ranking military official with intelligence ties. The assassin was never found and the case was closed. In 2007, Fred Burton - who had since become a State Department counterterrorism special agent - reopened the case. Published to widespread praise, Chasing Shadows spins a gripping tale of the secret agents, double dealings, terrorists, and heroes he encounters as he chases leads around the globe in an effort to solve this decades-old murder. From swirling dogfights over Egypt and Hanoi to gun battles on the streets of Beirut, this action-packed thriller looks in the dark heart of the Cold War to show how power is used, misused, and sold to the most convenient bidder.
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