num_pages: 400
description: From the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi comes the riveting true story of the kidnapping and murder of CIA station chief William Buckley and the bloody beginning of the CIAs endless war against Islamic radicalism.On April 18th 1983 a van rigged with 2000 pounds of heavy explosives broke through the security perimeter of the American embassy in Lebanon and exploded killing sixty-three people and decimating intelligence operations throughout the Middle East.Only one man inside the CIA possessed the courage and skills to rebuild the networks destroyed in the blast: William Buckley. Assigned as the new Beirut station chief Buckley arrived to a war-torn city and a CIA station in tatters. A field operative at heart he delved into Beirut's darkest corners developing new sources and handling assets. Then on October 23rd a US Marine Corps barracks was destroyed in a plot masterminded by a young terrorist named Imad Mughniyeh. But even as President Reagan vowed revenge Mughniyeh eyed a new target: Buckley. Beirut Rules is the pulse-by-pulse account of Buckleys abduction torture and murder at the hands of Hezbollah terrorists. Drawing on never seen before U.S. government documents as well as interviews with Buckleys former coworkers friends and family Burton and Katz reveal how the pursuit to find Buckley in the wake of his kidnapping ignited a war against terror that continues to shape the Middle East to this day.
language: English
title: Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah's War Against America
publisher: NAL