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

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ISBN: 1594204802 (hbk.) :
ISBN: 9781594204807 (hbk.) :
Physical Description: xii, 381 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2013.

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-366) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Summary, etc.:	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.