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

Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
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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. As it turned out, Alon wasn't just a pilot€”he was a high-ranking military official and with intelligence ties. The assassin was never found and the case was closed. In 2007, Fred Burton€”who had since become a State Department counterterrorism special agent€”reopened the case. Here, Burton spins a gripping tale of the secret agents, double dealings, terrorists and heroes he encounters he chases leads around the globe in an effort to solve this decades-old murder. From swirling dogfights over Egypt and Hanoi to gun battles on the streets of Beirut, this action-packed thriller looks in the dark heart of the Cold War to
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