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The way of the knife : the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the earth
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- Summary
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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.
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- Creator
- Mark Mazzetti
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Penguin Books, 2014
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780143125013, 014312501X
- OCLC
- ocn852238335
- "First published in the United States of America by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2013"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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