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

by Fred Burton

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A Cold War assassination case pursued across decades

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A Cold War assassination case pursued across decades

Fred Burton frames this true-crime account around the 1973 killing of Joe Alon in Bethesda, Maryland—a crime that entered his life when he was a sixteen-year-old neighbor. Years later, after becoming a State Department counterterrorism special agent, Burton reopened the unresolved case. The book connects that suburban shooting to Alon’s military and intelligence ties, following an investigation shaped by Cold War-era espionage, terrorism, covert contacts, and conflicting loyalties. Its central thread is the long effort to identify an assassin who was never found after the original investigation closed.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Cold War espionage and unresolved political assassinations
  • True-crime readers who want an investigator’s connection to a case
  • Those interested in counterterrorism and intelligence-linked investigations

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Cold War espionageUnsolved murderCounterterrorismIntelligence networksJustice across decades

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Book overview

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 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. Published to widespread praise, Chasing Shadows spins a gripping tale of the secret agents, double dealings, terrorists, and heroes he encounters as he chases leads around the globe in an effort to solve this decades-old murder.
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