Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
by Fred Burton with John Bruning
Palgrave Macmillan
In July 1973, a gunman stepped out 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 in Bethesda, Maryland. Alan wasn't just a pilot and family man -- he was a high-ranking Israeli military official with intelligence ties. His assassin was never found. In 2007, Fred Burton -- now a former State Department counterterrorism special agent -- reopened the case. From swirling dogfights over Egypt and Hanoi to gun battles on the streets of Beirut, this action-packed history shows how power is used, misused, and sold to the most convenient bidder. Chasing Shadows spins a gripping tale of secret agents, double agents, terrorists, and heroes as Burton chases leads around the globe in an effort to solve this decades old murder.
About the author: 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, known as the "Shadow CIA." He is the author of Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent and appears regularly on The Daily Show, Glenn Beck, and Anderson Cooper 360, and on Fox, ABC, and CBS radio. He lives in Austin, Texas.
John Bruning is a military historian and the coauthor of House to House. He lives in Independence, Oregon.
~I received a complimentary copy of this book from Palgrave Macmillan. Watch for my review in April 2011.~
Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
Publisher/Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan, April 12, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-62055-1
272 pages
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