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"In July 1973, a gunman stepped from behind a tree and fired five shots, point blank, into Josef Alon, a kind, unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot. Sixteen-year-old Fred Burton was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his sleepy suburban neighborhood of Bethesda, Maryland. As it turned out, Alon wasn't just a pilot and family man--he was a high-ranking Israeli military official with intelligence ties. The assassin was never found and the case was closed. Then, in 2007, now State Department counterterrorism special agent Fred Burton reopened the case and successfully pursued the killer, bringing closure to a traumatized family. From swirling dogfights over Egypt and Hanoi to gun battles on the streets of Beirut, this action-packed history spans the globe and several fraught decades in our history. In its portrait of how power is used, misused, and sold to the most convenient bidder, Chasing shadows spins a gripping tale of agents, double agents, terrorists, and heroes as Burton chases leads around the globe in an effort to solve this decades-old murder"--Provided by publisher.
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Murder, Cold War, Conspiracies, Intelligence officers, Assassination, Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad, Case studies, Investigation, Prevention, Terrorism, Biography, History, MunazĐzĐamat Aylul al-Aswad, Cold War (1945-1989) fast (OCoLC)fst01754978, Intelligence officers, biography, Israel, biography, Terrorism, preventionPeople
Fred Burton, Josef Alon (d. 1973)Places
United States, Israel, Maryland, BethesdaTimes
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Chasing shadows: a special agent's lifelong hunt to bring a Cold War assassin to justice
2012, Palgrave Macmillan
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Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
2011, St. Martin's Press
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Chasing shadows: a special agent's lifelong hunt to bring a Cold War assassin to justice
2011, Palgrave Macmillan
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"There's nothing like opening a cold terrorism case and finally finding the truth, one that will open the door to what we're up against today. Burton's done it with gripping narrative, and a straight-shooting style."--Robert Baer, author of See No Evil and The Company We Keep 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. 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 how power is used, misused, and sold to the most convenient bidder.
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