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

By Fred Burton and Fred Burton

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230339913
• ISBN13: 9780230339910
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"