The way of the knife the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the Earth

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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Main Author: Mazzetti, Mark
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2013.
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300 |a xii, 381 pages, [16] pages of plates :  |b illustrations ;  |c 25 cm 
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505 0 |a 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. 
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