The way of the knife
Subtitle: the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the earth
By: Mark Mazzetti
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780143125013
Subjects: Interagency coordination; National security; Military policy; United States; United States. Department of Defense; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Decision making
Description: 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.
Notes: Previously published: The Penguin Press, 2013.

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