[ Reading ] ➿ Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent Author Fred Burton – Loans-2006.info
In This Hard Hitting Memoir, Fred Burton, A Key Figure In International Counterterrorism And Domestic Spycraft, Emerges From The Shadows To Reveal Who He Is, What He Has Accomplished, And The Threats That Lurk Unseen Except By An Experienced, Worldly Wise Few Plunging Readers Into The Murky World Of Violent Religious Extremism That Spans The Streets Of Middle Eastern Cities And The Informant Filled Alleys Of American Slums, Burton Takes Us Behind The Scenes To Reveal How The United States Tracked Libya Linked Master Terrorist Abu Nidal Captured Ramzi Yusef, Architect Of The World Trade Center Bombing And Pursued The Assassins Of Major Figures Including Yitzhak Rabin, Meir Kahane, And General Muhammad Zia Ul Haq, The President Of Pakistan Classic Cases That Have Sobering New Meaning In The Treacherous Years Since Here, Too, Is Burton S Advice On Personal Safety For Today S Most Powerful CEOs, Gleaned From His Experience At Stratfor, The Private Firm Barron S Calls The Shadow CIA Told In A No Holds Barred, Gripping, Nuanced Style That Illuminates A Complex And Driven Man, Ghost Is Both A Riveting Read And An Illuminating Look Into The Shadows Of The Most Important Struggle Of Our Time
Ghost had some interesting contents For people who have read espionage nonfiction there will be things everyone s read several times discussions of dead drops, brush passes, surveillance and evasion There s a couple of intriguing pass
Where to begin with this book Fascinating content, candid description of how a the US counter terrorism portion of the diplomatic service originally had 3 overworked agent, 2 of them fresh out of training Interesting anecdotes about the writer
Author Fred Burton reveals the sinister realities of the global counterterrorism game in a very serious, readable, unpretentious way The book is devoid of the ego tripping and grandstanding that a lot of these memoirs suffer from i.e books like Jawbrea
Written by one of the founding agents of the U.S State Department s Diplomatic Security Service s DSS Counter terrorism Division, this memoir reveals the shadowy contours of global terrorism and its shift from state sponsored attacks to thedecentralized activit
Fred Burton was a counterterrorism agent for the Diplomatic Security Service and was involved in investigating some of the worst acts of terrorism in U.S history from 1986 to 1995.In Ghost, he recounts three specific investigations the Lebanon hostage crisis later revea
At first the premise for the book seemed appealing Hearing about the life of a counterterrorism agent directly from the source seemed appealing Like all books written by intelligence officers, it is understood that certain things just cannot be said or talked about for fear of i
Excellent insight into a murky field You may not be familiar with the state department DSS AND that s exactly the way that they want it This was an excellent book that is well written and that offers a lot of insights into the world prior to September 11, 2001 I highly recommend it and t
I enjoyed this book as a reminder that trouble with terrorism did not start on 9 11 and that self sacrificing heroes, known and unknown, are used for the security we can so easily take for granted Looking at this world through the author s eyes, I think this book is somewhat impacted by his stiff
Snippets of activities covering Fred Burtons career as a counter terrorism agent Many of the stories are familiar, some are not None are covered extensively, so to me it wasof an overview of the areas his agency dealt with.
I read it all the way through because I m really curious about the human equation in the world of the spook I learned little of any depth, so don t expect an expos No depth of feeling or learning by the author.