Title The way of the knife : the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the Earth / Mark Mazzetti

Publisher

New York : Penguin Press, 2013

Copies

Phys Descr	xii, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note	Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-366) and index
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
Summary	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
Subject	United States -- Military policy -- Decision making
	National security -- United States -- Decision making
	United States. Central Intelligence Agency
	United States. Department of Defense
	Interagency coordination -- United States
OCLC #	829239596
ISBN #	9781594204807
	1594204802