Chasing Shadows; A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
New York: Palgrave macmillan, 2011. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. vi, 258 pages. Illustrations. Timeline. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed and dated by Burton on the Title page. Fred Burton is geopolitical intelligence platform Stratfor's chief security officer and a New York Times bestselling author. His publishers describe him as "one of the world's foremost experts on security, terrorists and terrorist organizations." He was appointed to the Texas Border Security Council on September 11, 2007 by Governor Rick Perry. Burton regularly briefs corporate executive teams on security related issues and speaks at a variety of both public and private events, including the Southern Law Network's 18th Annual General Counsel Event. John Bruning is the author or coauthor of fifteen nonfiction books, including the critically acclaimed Shadow of the Sword (with Jeremiah Workman) and House to House (with David Bellavia). To prepare for this book, he embedded with coalition forces in Afghanistan in 2010. Derived from a Kirkus review: A former U.S. State Department intelligence officer tries to solve a 1973 murder case. Burton had a career as a policeman and a chief with the State Department Diplomatic Security Service. He was then a vice president at Strategic Forecasting (STRATFOR). None of those jobs caused the author to forget a murder in his normally quiet neighborhood when he was 16. The murder victim was Josef Alon, a husband and father who served in a diplomatic/military posting to Washington, D.C. The author vowed that he would try to solve the homicide. Writing with historian Bruning, Burton conveys his passion to solve a mystery that authorities either did not want to solve or had solved but refused to acknowledge. As the author guides readers through more than 35 years of on-and-off investigating, he shares musings, evidentiary dead ends and occasional advances. Eventually, he solved the murder, at least to his satisfaction. If in truth he has identified the killer, he should receive an A+ as a detective. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Murder, Joseph Alon, Assassination, Black September, Terrorism, Dassault Aviation, FBI, Israeli Defense Forces, Ed Golian, Arab-Isaeli, Mossad, Palestine Liberation, PLO, MURDA, Ali Hassan Salameh
ISBN: 9780230620551
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