Manhuntibooks, 2002 - 301 sidor The incredible pursuit of a CIA agent turned terrorist by New York Times best-selling author Peter Maas. Edwin P. Wilson was the Great Gatsby of the spook world, the rogue CIA agent who had already begun to amass a fortune while still in U.S intelligence. His lavish estate outside Washington, D.C. was a favoured gathering place for senators and congressmen, admirals and generals, for key intelligence officers. In addition, Wilson was also raking in millions in the service of the godfather of world-wide terrorism - Libya's Colonel Muamar el-Qaddafi. Wilson seemed above the law. Then, US attorney Larry Barcella discovered Wilson's sinister machinations, and in a chase that would go on for nearly four years and over three continents, Barcella began a manhunt that would not end until Wilson was brought to justice. In MANHUNT, Peter Maas went behind the headlines, gaining access to the secret documentation of Wilson's intelligence career, classified federal investigative reports and sealed court records. And in the course of his exhaustive research into the murky bypaths of espionage and deception, he turned over rocks that official Washington would have much preferred remained in place |
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... started working as a stewardess for Northeast Airlines . She married an accountant , found she had a knack for accounting herself and when she got divorced , the mother now of a son , she got a business degree from a community college ...
... started working as a stewardess for Northeast Airlines . She married an accountant , found she had a knack for accounting herself and when she got divorced , the mother now of a son , she got a business degree from a community college ...
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... started talking about it . So how could anything have been induced ? Barcella argued for an ap- peal , and for a while it seemed likely , but finally the solicitor general decided that it was too soon to go back to the Supreme Court on ...
... started talking about it . So how could anything have been induced ? Barcella argued for an ap- peal , and for a while it seemed likely , but finally the solicitor general decided that it was too soon to go back to the Supreme Court on ...
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... started reading a spy novel . Quite appropriately , it was about snaring a fiendish terrorist in the Middle East . The differ- ence was that the novel's hero had a series of exotic women swarming around him . Barcella thought about Mary ...
... started reading a spy novel . Quite appropriately , it was about snaring a fiendish terrorist in the Middle East . The differ- ence was that the novel's hero had a series of exotic women swarming around him . Barcella thought about Mary ...
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