Chasing Shadows A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice

by Burton, Fred; Bruning, John R.

• ISBN13: 9780230620551
• ISBN10: 0230620558
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-12
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Summary

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 Shadowsspins 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.

Author Biography

Fred Burton is one of the world's foremost experts on security, terrorists, and terrorist organizations. He was deputy chief 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 is the 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 and the co-author of House to House. He lives in Independence, Oregon.

Table of Contents

Prologue The Long Pursuit	p. 1
The Crime	p. 7
The Lion of Hatzor	p. 15
The Investigation Begins	p. 31
Dvora's Quest	p. 39
Conspiracy Theory	p. 51
Rolling Thunder	p. 61
Stealing the MiG-21	p. 75
The Bear's Black Eye	p. 85
The Fate of the Evidence	p. 97
The Suspect List	p. 111
Origins of Terror	p. 129
The Birth of Black September	p. 141
The Shadow War Begins	p. 151
Unbridled Vengeance	p. 173
Coming into Focus	p. 187
The CIA's Involvement	p. 199
Tracking the Killers	p. 209
Epilogue Justice	p. 221
Acknowledgments	p. 225
Timeline	p. 227
Notes	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 247
Index	p. 249
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