The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil

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&“Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This is an amazing piece of historical writing. . . . Students, foreign affairs &‘experts&’ and officials should have this work as required reading.&”—Jim Miles, Palestine Chronicle&“[Dennett is] an expert in resource-based politics.&”—TimeUnraveling the mystery of a master spy&’s death by following pipelines and mapping wars in the Middle East.In 1947, Daniel Dennett, America&’s sole master spy in the Middle East, was dispatched to Saudi Arabia to study the route of the proposed Trans-Arabian Pipeline. It would be his last assignment. A plane carrying him to Ethiopia went down, killing everyone on board. Today, Dennett is recognized by the CIA as a &“Fallen Star&” and an important figure in US intelligence history. Yet the true cause of his death remains clouded in secrecy.In Follow the Pipelines, investigative journalist Charlotte Dennett digs into her father&’s postwar counterintelligence work, which pitted him against America&’s wartime allies—the British, French, and Russians—in a covert battle for geopolitical and economic influence in the Middle East. Through stories and maps, she reveals how feverish competition among superpower intelligence networks, military, and Big Oil interests have fueled indiscriminate attacks, misguided foreign policy, and targeted killings that continue to this day.The book delivers an irrefutable indictment of these devastating forces and demonstrates how the brutal violence they incite has shaped the Middle East and birthed an era of endless conflict.Follow the Pipelines also brings new questions to the fore:To what lengths has the United States negotiated with the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS to secure Big Oil&’s holdings in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen?Was the Pentagon&’s goal of defeating ISIS a fraudulent pretext for America&’s occupation of Syrian eastern provinces and a land grab for oil?Did the infamous double agent Kim Philby, who worked for the British while secretly spying for the Russians, have anything to do with Dennett&’s death?Why have the US and China made North Africa the next major battleground in the Great Game for Oil?Part personal pilgrimage, part deft critique, Dennett&’s insightful reportage examines what happens to international relations when oil wealth hangs in the balance, and she shines a glaring light on what so many have actually been dying for.
Copyright:
2020

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
368 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781603588782
Related ISBNs:
9781603588775
Publisher:
Rizzoli
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Copyrighted By:
Charlotte Dennett
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Military, Nonfiction, Business and Finance
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Foreword by:
null Daniel C. Dennett III

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