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(0)Fred Burton
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"In July 1973, a gunman stepped from behind a tree and fired five shots, point blank, into Josef Alon, a kind, unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot. Sixteen-year-old Fred Burton was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his sleepy suburban neighborhood of Bethesda, Maryland. As it turned out, Alon wasn't just a pilot and family man--he was a high-ranking Israeli military official with intelligence ties. The assassin was never found and the case was...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
For decades, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spy craft, has secretly been on the front lines in the fight to keep Americans safe around the world. Now, in this hard-hitting memoir, Burton emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced, world-wise few.
In the mid-80s, the idea of defending Americans against terrorism
...Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The explosive inside account of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence outposts in Benghazi, Libya On the night of September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, came under ferocious attack by a heavily armed group of Islamic terrorists. The prolonged firefight, and the attack hours later on a nearby CIA outpost, resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including the American ambassador to Libya, Christopher...
Author
Publisher
Bancroft Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this environmental novel set in the mountains of Pennsylvania, the story centers on Joe, a senior staff member of the Pennsylvania State Senate. His loyalties begin to be tested after he meets Nicole, a woodland retreat owner in the Loyalsock Forest, whose family business is threatened by a gas and oil industry newly focused on fracking. When the drilling company decides to build a rig on her family's property, whether they truly want it or not,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi comes the riveting true story of the kidnapping and murder of CIA station chief William Buckley and the bloody beginning of the CIA's endless war against Islamic radicalism. On April 18, 1983, a van rigged with two thousand pounds of heavy explosives broke through the security perimeter of the American embassy in Lebanon and exploded, killing sixty-three...
