Chasing shadows
Subtitle: a special agent's lifelong hunt to bring a Cold War assassin to justice
By: Fred Burton, John Bruning
Contributors: Bruning, John
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230339910
Subjects: Intelligence service; Assassination; Cold War
Description: "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.