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Name: The Way of the Knife
Author: Mark Mazzetti

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.

First publish date: 2013

Authors: Mark Mazzetti

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