The man who tried to save the world

the dangerous life and mysterious disappearance of Fred Cuny

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The man who tried to save the world

the dangerous life and mysterious disappearance of Fred Cuny

1st ed.
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"Fred Cuny spent his life in terrible places. In countries rent by war, earthquake, famine, and hurricane, Cuny saved hundreds of thousands of lives with a fearlessness that amazed all who knew him. A Texan, a teller of tall tales, a womanizer, and a renegade, Cuny grew ever more daring in his globe-trotting adventures as his motivations became murkier. Was he a danger junkie? A CIA spy? Or a man who truly believed he had the wits and courage to save the world?"--BOOK JACKET.

"After twenty-five years of heroic work that earned Cuny the nickname "Master of Disaster," he set off to the rogue Russian republic of Chechnya, a land of gangsters and Islamic terrorists, a quasi-state engaged in an unimaginably savage war with a Russian army of drunken, brutal incompetents. Cuny went to try to stop the war, but for the first time in his life he was scared, unsure of himself in an insane landscape where betrayal and murder lurked behind every face.

He failed to stop the horror, yet soon returned to Chechnya on a mysterious mission. Cuny was last seen on a lonely mountain road, headed for a rebel fortress that was being subjected to the most intense artillery bombardment since World War II."--BOOK JACKET.

"War correspondent Scott Anderson became obsessed with Cuny's fate, and ventured into the deadly war zone himself in search of answers to several haunting questions: Whom was Cuny working for? What happened to him, and why? Most powerfully, what sort of man believes he can save the world?"--BOOK JACKET.

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Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
374

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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.87/526/092, B
Library of Congress
HV640 .A615 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
374 p. :
Number of pages
374

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL381608M
Internet Archive
manwhotriedtosav00ande
ISBN 10
0385486650
LCCN
98043936
OCLC/WorldCat
40158913
Library Thing
256562
Goodreads
2180843

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