The way of the knife

the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the earth

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The way of the knife

the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the earth

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An account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world's dark spaces: the new American way of war.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
381

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The way of the knife: the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the earth
2014, Penguin Books
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Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
2013, Scribe Publications
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Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
2013, Scribe Publications
in English
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Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
2013, Scribe Publications
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Table of Contents

The war beyond
Permission to kill
A marriage among spies
Cloak-and-dagger men
Rumsfeld's spies
The angry bird
A true Pashtun
Convergence
A war by proxy
The base
Games without frontiers
The old man's return
The scalpel's edge
The scramble for Africa
The unraveling
The doctor and the sheikh
Fire from the sky
A spy in leisure world.

Edition Notes

Previously published: The Penguin Press, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
UA23, UA23 .M19 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 381 p., [16] p. of plates
Number of pages
381

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26917753M
ISBN 10
014312501X
ISBN 13
9780143125013
OCLC/WorldCat
852238335

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16805764W

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