Chasing shadows: a special agent's lifelong hunt to bring a cold war assassin to justice

"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 turnedout, 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, andheroes 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 gunbattles 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.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-33991-0
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 22/06/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido