Research Catalog

Title

Shooting the moon : the true story of an American manhunt unlike any other, ever / David Harris.

Author

Harris, David, 1946-2023

Publication

Boston : Little, Brown, c2001.

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Details

Description

394 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

The tale of three Americans who defied their superiors to make a criminal case against Manuel Noriega chronicles a four-year manhunt featuring cops, diplomats, paratroopers, a famous cocaine cartel, and a president trying to make a name for himself.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Case studies
• United States > Foreign relations > Panama
• Panama > Foreign relations > United States
• Prosecution > United States > Case studies
• Arrest > Panama
• Drug traffic > Investigation > United States > Case studies
• Drug dealers > Panama > Biography
• Noriega, Manuel Antonio, 1934-2017

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Case studies

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Prelude -- The General in Miami, 2000 -- The First Precondition -- The Second Precondition -- The Third Precondition -- The Indictment -- The Case Agent -- The Washington Side of the Story -- The Investigation Begins -- Making the Case -- The Grand Jury -- The Blandon Plan -- Telling Washington -- Playing Politics -- Sprinting Toward the Finish Line -- The Final Witness -- Running the Gauntlet -- The General's True Bill -- The Arrest -- The Law and Much More -- Getting Ready -- Elliott Abrams's Final Offense -- Let's Make a Deal -- The Case's Diminishment -- The General's Harbinger -- The Coup -- Endgame.

ISBN

0316340804

LCCN

^^^00065498^

OCLC

• 45418974
• SCSB-10027978

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library