Chasing shadows: a special agent's lifelong hunt to bring a Cold War assassin to justice
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"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 of Bethesda, Maryland. As it turned out, Alon wasn't just a pilot and family man--he was a high-ranking Israeli military official with intelligence ties. The assassin was never found and the case was closed. Then, in 2007, now State Department counterterrorism special agent Fred Burton 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 the globe and several fraught decades in our history. 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"--Provided by publisher.
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Alon, Josef
Alon, Josef, -- -1973 -- Assassination
Assassination
Burton, Fred
Cold War
Conspiracies
Conspiracies -- Case studies
Detective and mystery fiction
Espionage
Espionage -- Fiction
History
Intelligence officers
Intelligence officers -- Israel -- Biography
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography
International relations
International relations -- Fiction
Investigation
Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad
Murder
Murder -- Investigation -- Case studies
Murder -- Maryland -- Bethesda -- History -- 20th century
Political science
Political science -- Fiction
Prevention
Terrorism
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Case studies
True crime
True crime -- Fiction
Twentieth century
Twentieth century -- Fiction
Alon, Josef, -- -1973 -- Assassination
Assassination
Burton, Fred
Cold War
Conspiracies
Conspiracies -- Case studies
Detective and mystery fiction
Espionage
Espionage -- Fiction
History
Intelligence officers
Intelligence officers -- Israel -- Biography
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography
International relations
International relations -- Fiction
Investigation
Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad
Murder
Murder -- Investigation -- Case studies
Murder -- Maryland -- Bethesda -- History -- 20th century
Political science
Political science -- Fiction
Prevention
Terrorism
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Case studies
True crime
True crime -- Fiction
Twentieth century
Twentieth century -- Fiction
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International relations -- Fiction
Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad
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Espionage -- Fiction
Intelligence officers -- Israel -- Biography
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography
International relations -- Fiction
Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad
Murder -- Investigation -- Case studies
Murder -- Maryland -- Bethesda -- History -- 20th century
Political science -- Fiction
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Case studies
True crime -- Fiction
Twentieth century -- Fiction
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Investigation
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Political science
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