The way of the knife : the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the Earth
Title:
The way of the knife : the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the Earth
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Publication Date as Range:
2013
ISBN:
9781594204807
Physical Description:
xii, 381 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
The war beyond -- Permission to kill -- A marriage among spies -- Cloak-and-dagger men -- Rumsfeld's spies -- The angry bird -- A true Pashtun -- Convergence -- A war by proxy -- The base -- Games without frontiers -- The old man's return -- The scalpel's edge -- The scramble for Africa -- The unraveling -- The doctor and the sheikh -- Fire from the sky -- A spy in leisure world.
Abstract:
An account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world's dark spaces: the new American way of war.
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