Book
The way of the knife : the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the Earth
Publication Information
New York : Penguin Press, 2013.
Physical Description
xii, 381 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary
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.
Contents
- 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.