Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt To Bring A Cold War Assassin To Justice

By: Fred Burton and John Bruning

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Synopsis: 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. As it turned out, Alon wasn’t just a pilot and family man—he was a high-ranking intelligence agent with the Mossad. The assassin was never found and the case was closed. In 2007, Fred Burton, now a State Department counterterrorism special agent, 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 several fraught decades and ultimately sheds new light on how the United States and Israel have tested their loyalties in a relentlessly hostile world. In its portrait of how power is used, misused, and sold to the most convenient bidder, Chasing Shadows spins 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.

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 258 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780230620551
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Date of Addition:: 04/21/20
Copyrighted By:: Fred Burton
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Daproim Africa
Proofread By:: Daproim Africa
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.