Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold Wa (Audiobook)

from thewanderingjew

This fast-paced, non-fiction account of the long unsolved murder of a former war hero turned Israeli diplomat, Joe Alon, (aka Jospeh Placzek) is filled with intrigue, deception and conspiracy theories. I was reading several other books at the same time, as I am wont to do, but once I started this...

from spacecommuter

I loved this book and have a lot of praise for it, but first I have to debunk the subtitle. Chasing Shadows is advertised as the story of "a Special Agent's lifelong hunt to bring a Cold War assassin to justice," however, the author/investigator is actually retired from the Diplomatic Security Se...

from gtown

When the author was a teenager a murder happened in his neighborhood that he unknowingly trained his entire life to solve. This book tells the story of how he did that after over 30 years of following the case. While the book is about the murder investigation, about half of it is dedicated to exp...

from Ronrose1

Terrorism, murder, revenge, an eye for an eye, so very little separates one from the other. Small nuances that define our lives. Thin lines crossed by individuals and governments. Who is to say what is right? A statement often attributed to Winston Churchill states, history is written by the vict...

from Ronrose1

Terrorism, murder, revenge, an eye for an eye, so very little separates one from the other. Small nuances that define our lives. Thin lines crossed by individuals and governments. Who is to say what is right? A statement often attributed to Winston Churchill states, history is written by the vict...