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Author Mazzetti, Mark.

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

Publication Info. New York : The Penguin Press, 2013.

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 West Sacramento Adult Nonfiction  356.16097 MAZ    CHECK SHELVES
 Winters Adult Nonfiction  356.16097 MAZ    CHECK SHELVES
Description xii, 381 pages, 15 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type text rdacontent
Format volume rdacarrier
Bibliography 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.
ISBN 9781594204807
1594204802