Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
- ISBN-10
- 0230117953
- ISBN-13
- 9780230117952
- Series
- Chasing Shadows
- Category
- True Crime
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-04-12
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Authors
- John R. Bruning, Fred Burton
Description
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 and 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. Here, in Chasing Shadows, Burton spins a gripping tale of the secret agents, double dealings, terrorists and heroes he encounters 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 power is uses, misused, and sold to the most convenient bidder.
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