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100 1 $aAnderson, Scott,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92034873
245 14 $aThe man who tried to save the world :$bthe dangerous life and mysterious disappearance of Fred Cuny /$cby Scott Anderson.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c1999.
263 $a9905
300 $a374 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
520 1 $a"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.
520 8 $a"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.
520 8 $aHe 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.
520 8 $a"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.
650 0 $aInternational relief.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067441
610 20 $aINTERTECT (Firm)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85276470
600 10 $aCuny, Frederick C.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83070136
650 0 $aPhilanthropists$vBiography.
650 0 $aDisappeared persons$vBiography.
852 00 $bglx$hHV640$i.A615 1999