A riveting 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. In the shadow war, America has pursued its enemies using killer drones, private contractors and foreign proxy armies, and the line between soldiers and spies has blurred. 

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MARK MAZZETTI is a national security correspondent for The New York Times.  In 2009, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the intensifying violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Washington’s response

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