Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
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“Thrillers don’t get any better than this, but this spine-tingling story is real.” —Ronald Kessler, author of In the President’s Secret Service and The Terrorist Watch
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. But despite the best efforts of police, the assassin was never found and the motive remained a mystery. The case remained unsolved until 2007, when former counter-terrorism special agent Fred Burton reopened the investigation. Published to widespread praise, Chasing Shadows is the gripping tale of the secret agents, double-dealings, terrorists, and heroes Burton encounters as he chases leads around the globe in an effort to solve this decades-old murder.
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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.
