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

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 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.

Here, Burton spins a gripping tale of the secret agents, double dealings, terrorists and heroes he encounters he chases leads around the globe in an effort to solve this decades-old murder.

From swirling dogfights over Egypt and Hanoi to gun battles on the streets of Beirut, this action-packed thriller looks in the dark heart of the Cold War to show power is uses, misused, and sold to the most convenient bidder.