Fred Burton

About The Author

Fred Burton is one of the world’s foremost experts on protective intelligence, global security and terrorism.  He is a former State Department counterterrorism deputy chief and DSS special agent, who investigated the kidnapping of the hostages held captive by Hezbollah and many other acts of terror.  He is the author of Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent and Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent’s Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice, and coauthor with Samuel M. Katz of the New York Times bestseller Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi.

Books by Fred Burton

Beirut Rules

The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah's War Against America

By Fred Burton and Samuel M Katz
From the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Under Fire comes the story of the kidnapping and murder of CIA Station Chief William Buckley and the bloody beginning of the CIA’s endless war against Islamic radicalism.
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