Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Fred Burton ,
John Bruning
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.40cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.284kg
ISBN: 9780230339910
ISBN 10: 0230339913
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 22 June 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[This investigation] dealt Burton as many twists and turns as in any five detective thrillers ... As a result of Burton's efforts ... resolution came to the case at long last. -- Huffington Post [Chasing Shadows] reads like a spy thriller. Readers will be turning the pages, eager to see where the case leads Burton . . . Anyone interested in international affairs and the history of the Cold War era will be fascinated by Burton's efforts to find his neighbor's killer. -- Jewish Book World <p> 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 <p> Chasing Shadows is a tension-filled hunt for an assassin by a tenacious counterterrorism agent who finds that the path to finally nailing the case leads through the FBI, the CIA, Mossad, and the Black September terr
Author Information
"Fred Burton is one of the world's foremost experts on security, terrorists, and terrorist organizations. He was deputy director of the Counterterrorism Division of the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service and is currently a vice president at Stratfor, a global intelligence agency known as the ""shadow CIA.""He isthe author of Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent and has appeared on the Daily Show, Glenn Beck and Anderson Cooper 360, and on Fox, ABC, and CBS radio. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times, among others. He lives in Austin, TX. John Bruning is a military historian andthe co-author ofHouse to House. He lives in Independence, Oregon."
