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

by Fred Burton, Fred Burton, John R. Bruning

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 and with intelligence ties. The assassin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230620558
• ISBN13: 9780230620551
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"