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

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. Alons sixteen-year-old neighbor Fred Burton was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his sleepy suburban neighborhood. As it turned out Alon wasnt 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.