Relates the history of cooperation between U.S. and Israeli intelligence services

Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship

Politics & Social Sciences

Cockburn, Andrew

Cockburn, Leslie

Politics & Government

Harpercollins

Discusses the work of U.S. and Israeli intelligence services

History

Middle East

Perennial

News correspondent Leslie Cockburn has dined with the Cali Cartel, marched with the Khmer Rouge, hunted down the Black Turban in Afghanistan, pursued the Russian mafia to the Arctic Circle, shared pomegranate sauce with the Ayatollahs, and stopped a small Kurdish war, but she has never told these stories in a book-until now. Cockburn was one of the first women to break into the tight fraternity of combat and third-world reportage when she began work at the London bureau of NBC News in 1976-where successful news gathering required "unorthodox tactics, stamina, and, for best results, a criminal mind." By the time she moved to CBS's "60 Minutes," Cockburn had interviewed Muammar Qaddaffi and Margaret Thatcher, been arrested as spy in Gambia, and effectively eliminated whatever doubts her colleagues might have had about a woman's ability to tackle the news business's most dangerous assignments. A mother of three who has made a career of breaking down barriers, Leslie Cockburn has exposed the tobacco lobby in Washington and human rights violations in Cambodia, and her impact on foreign and domestic policy has been as powerful as her impact on the rights and prerogatives of working women. In an industry in which, as late as 1973, women had to lobby to wear trousers to work, Leslie Cockburn was determined to combine a strong family life with a strong professional life, sacrificing neither. With a cast of generals, drug lords, rock stars, and kings, LOOKING FOR TROUBLE is the incredible story of a career that has spanned the history-making news events of the last two decades.

Looking for Trouble

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

DOUBLEDAY

In the fall and winter of 1986 the American people learned that their government had secretly financed and directed a war in Central America at a time when it was barred from doing so.The official investigations have concentrated on the authority for and the legality of this activity. But equally important are questions of who was actually fighting this war and what they were actually doing.Out of Control supplies the answer. Leslie Cockburn has been following the trail of Lieut. Col. Oliver North and his secret army since 1984 as a producer for CBS News. In the course of innumerable trips to Central America and elsewhere, she found the foot soldiers of this secret army and the men who controlled them. They told of an arms pipeline running directly from the United States to the front lines of the contra war. They told of a contra leadership more interested in their own personal welfare than in fighting the war. They told of plots to provoke direct United States military intervention in Nicaragua. They told of secret meetings to plan assassinations. Most shockingly of all, members of the network laid out the intimate connection between the secret army and narcotics, and how the very same people had been simultaneously shipping arms, shipping drugs, and receiving subsidies of United States taxpayers' money.The American people did not know about these activities. American government agencies did know, and strove to prevent the facts from being revealed.Out of Control tells how people risked careers, liberty, and their lives to try to reveal the truth. Some of these people paid a bitter price, abandoned by superiors who found their knowledge inconvenient and embarrassing. At least one of them paid the ultimate price.As the story moves between the jungles of Central America, the Miami underworld, and Washington, D.C., we learn for the first time the extraordinary details of the secret war in Nicaragua.

Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection

Americas

Atlantic Monthly Pr

In Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, love and friendship are as uncertain as the shifting battle lines of the civil war. Lee McGuinness, a trauma surgeon on a humanitarian mission, is also on a personal quest: to find her companion-in-arms, Martin Carrigan, who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Has he been kidnapped for ransom? Or is he a traitor to his country, running arms to the insurgents? In search of someone - and something - to believe in, Lee must navigate a wilderness of mirrors in which greed, lies, and brutality are found among allies and enemies alike. In the tradition of Graham Greene and Robert Stone, Leslie Cockburn has written a haunting novel of intrigue and romance set in a deadly world of deception.

Baghdad Solitaire

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Asahina & Wallace

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