Chasing shadows
Subtitle: a special agent's lifelong hunt to bring a Cold War assassin to justice
By: Fred Burton with John Bruning
Contributors: Bruning, John R.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780230620551
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: The long pursuit; title: The crime; title: The lion of Hatzor; title: The investigation begins; title: Dvora's quest; title: Conspiracy theory; title: Rolling thunder; title: Stealing the MiG-21; title: The bear's black eye; title: The fate of the evidence; title: The suspect list; title: Origins of terror; title: The birth of Black September; title: The shadow war begins; title: Unbridled vengeance; title: Coming into focus; title: The CIA's involvement; title: Tracking the killer; title: Epilogue.