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Chasing Shadows de Fred Burton

Chasing Shadows

Autor Fred Burton, John Bruning
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 iun 2012

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."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230339910
ISBN-10: 0230339913
Pagini: 258
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations, black & white halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Descriere

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.

Recenzii

'This book represents an extraordinary history of Fred Burton's determined pursuit of justice in the unsolved case of a murder in his hometown when he was a teenager. It demonstrates the uses and abuses of international power and how international loyalties are bought and sold. The story is told in the manner of political thriller with all the twists and turns one would expect. It is constructed and written to draw the reader in and who will inevitably find it difficult to put down.' - Defence Viewpoints, UK Defence Forum

Review for Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Expert:

'With spy thriller suspense and the clarity of a police report, former special agent Burton's State Department saga reads like a brewing-storm prequel to the current 'war on terror.' - Publishers Weekly

'This book reads like a le Carré spy novel. . . Shorn of ideological rights and wrongs, it's a fascinating look at what counterterrorism really means on a day-to-day level.' - Booklist

Notă biografică

Fred Burton is one of the world's foremost experts on security, terrorists, and terrorist organizations. He was deputy director of the Counterterrorism Division of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service and is currently a vice president at Stratfor, a global intelligence agency known as the "shadow CIA."He isthe author of Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent and has appeared on the Daily Show, Glenn Beck and Anderson Cooper 360, and on Fox, ABC, and CBS radio. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times, among others. He lives in Austin, TX.
John Bruning is a military historian andthe co-author ofHouse to House. He lives in Independence, Oregon.

Caracteristici

The hardcover is netting over 10,000 since its April release. Burton's last book, Ghost, is still selling strong, netting over 20,000 combined in hardback and paperback Chasing Shadows received wide-spread coverage, including The O'Reilly Factor, The Associated Press, and Washington Jewish Week
Combining true crime, a Cold War spy story and the resolution of an unsolved mystery, this book falls at the intersection of the most popular areas in nonfiction today

Cuprins

The Long Pursuit
The Crime
The Lion of Hatzor
The Investigation Begins
Dvora's Quest
Conspiracy Theory
Rolling Thunder
Stealing the MiG-21
The Bear's Black Eye
The Fate of the Evidence
The Suspect List
Origins of Terror
The Birth of Black September
The Shadow War Begins
Unbridled Vengeance
Coming into Focus
The CIA's Involvement
Tracking the Killers
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Timeline
Notes
Bibliography
Index