Table of Contents
Author's Note on Sources xi
Prologue 3
Part I 1941
Chapter 1 An Office for Ungentlemanly Warfare 11
Chapter 2 Tertia Optio 30
Chapter 3 Surprise Attack in Korea 38
Chapter 4 Special Forces 57
Chapter 5 Ruin and Rule in Guatemala 65
Chapter 6 Kings, Shahs, Monarchs, and Madmen 79
Chapter 7 The KGB's Office of Liquid Affairs 93
Chapter 8 Green Light 102
Chapter 9 The Special Group 115
Part II 1961
Chapter 10 An Assassination Capability 131
Chapter 11 JFK, KIA 142
Chapter 12 The Studies and Observations Group 161
Chapter 13 Kill or Capture 173
Chapter 14 Green Berets 191
Chapter 15 Revenge 211
Chapter 16 Colonel Qaddafi's Libya 230
Part III 1981
Chapter 17 Reagan's Preemptive Neutralization 251
Chapter 18 Parachute Assassins, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden 274
Chapter 19 Operation Love Storm 292
Chapter 20 Carlos the Jackal 303
Chapter 21 The Engineer 317
Part IV 2001
Chapter 22 War in Afghanistan 341
Chapter 23 Poke the Bear 358
Chapter 24 War in Iraq 371
Chapter 25 Imad Mugniyah 389
Chapter 26 The Moral Twilight Zone 398
Chapter 27 Just War 417
Chapter 28 The Hidden Hand 433
Epilogue 451
Acknowledgments 455
Bibliography 459
Notes 477
Index 527