A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial - Hardcover

Hendricks, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393065812 ISBN 13: 9780393065817

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2010

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Steve Hendricks is a gifted writer as well as a dogged sleuth, a combination that has turned this account--a journey through some of the darker human mazes of the war on terror--into one of those rarities, an important story, excellently told.--Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life Exceptionally well written and deeply reported--a gripping novel-like book that brilliantly reconstructs one of the more revealing episodes of the 'war on terror.'--Peter Bergen, author of The Osama bin Laden I Know

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"In Milan a known fact is always explained by competing stories," Hendricks writes, but the stories that swirled around the February 2003 disappearance of the radical imam Abu Omar would soon point in one direction--to a covert action by the CIA. The police of Milan had been exploiting their wiretaps of Abu Omar for useful information before the taps went silent. The Americans were their allies in counterterrorism--would they have disrupted a fruitful investigation? In an extraordinary tale of detective versus spy, Italian investigators under the leadership of prosecutor Armando Spataro unraveled in embarrassing detail the "covert" action in which Abu Omar had been kidnapped and sent to be tortured in Egypt. Spataro--seasoned in prosecutions of the Mafia and the Red Brigades and a passionate believer in the rule of law--sought to try the kidnappers in absentia: the first-ever trial of CIA officers by a U.S. ally. An exemplary achievement in narrative nonfiction writing, A Kidnapping in Milan is at once a detective story, a history of the terrorist menace, and an indictment of the belief that man's savagery against man can be stilled with more savagery yet.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0393065812
• ISBN 13: 9780393065817
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352