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.
Record details
ISBN:9781594204807 (hc.)
Physical Description:print regular print xii, 381 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher:New York :Penguin Press,2013, �2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-366) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.