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 JusticeOn 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 with intelligence ties. The assassin was

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 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. Published to widespread praise, Chasing Shadows spins a gripping tale of the secret agents, double dealings, terrorists, and heroes he encounters as he chases leads around the globe in an effort to solve this decades-old murder.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 05/22/2012
ISBN: 9780230339910
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d