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

Author: Fred Burton

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Unabridged: 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/26/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, True Crime

Synopsis

In 1973, a gunman fired five shots into Colonel Joe Alon, a kind, unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot. As it turned out, Alon wasn't just a pilot and family man - he was a high-ranking Israeli military official and hero of the Israeli Air Force. The assassin was never found and the case was closed. As a counterterrorism special agent, Fred Burton reopened the case and pursued the killer. 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. 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.

About Fred Burton

FRED BURTON is Vice President of Intelligence and Counterterrorism at Stratfor, the largest global private intelligence company, and is one of the world’s foremost experts on security, terrorists and terrorist organizations.Mr. Burton is a former State Department counter terrorism deputy chief and DSS Agent who orchestrated the arrest of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing. Mr. Burton also conducted the debriefings of the U.S. hostages held in Lebanon; investigated the plane crash that killed President Zia of Pakistan, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, and a U.S. Army general. Burton was instrumental in the development of the State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program to target terrorists like Yousef and Osama Bin Laden; investigated the assassination of Israeli President Rabin; the killing of Rabbi Meir Kahane; the al-Qaeda New York City bombing plots; the Libyan-backed terrorist attacks on diplomats in Sana’a and Khartoum; and countless other terrorist attacks and threats around the globe.Burton is the author of a bestselling memoir, Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent, and Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent’s Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice (Palgrave, 2011). 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ronald

Terrorism, murder, revenge, an eye for an eye, so very little separates one from the other. Small nuances that define our lives. Thin lines crossed by individuals and governments. Who is to say what is right? A statement often attributed to Winston Churchill states, history is written by the victors......more

Goodreads review by Enso

An interesting book by the author of "Ghost" on his lifelong search for the assassins of an Israeli pilot (and possible Mossad agent) in the author's hometown when he was 16. This is the event that pushed Fred Burton to becoming a cop and eventually working in counter-terrorism. The book covers the......more

Goodreads review by Amy

I enjoyed this firsthand account about a decades long assassin case that was solved and the history lesson I got in the process (which was definitely skipped over in US schooling). There is a little bias from the agent writer but overall delivers the facts in a narrative. Worth reading if you enjoy......more

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