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#236 | Fred Burton | NYT Best-Selling Author | LIVE Discussion

The Protectors® Podcast

English - July 16, 2021 23:00 - 57 minutes - 39.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Fred Burton, New-York Times Best-Selling Author and former counterterrorism agent, joined a special episode of The Protectors Book Club.  We were joined by Brian Andrews (co-author of the Tier One Series) and B.C. Sanders a detective on the east coast.  

From Fred's site:  Fred Burton is a former police officer,  special agent and New York Times best-selling author.  He's served on the front lines of high-profile investigations like the hunt for and arrest of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the first World Trade Center bombing; the 1988 plane crash of PAK-1 that killed U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel and Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq; and the search for Americans kidnapped by Hezbollah in Beirut, Lebanon.

His best-selling books include his personal memoir GHOST: Confessions of a Counterterrorism AgentChasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice, Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi and his fourth book, Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah’s War Against America.

Burton also consults with Fortune 500 companies on security developments and how to keep their personnel and business safe as the Executive Director of the Ontic Center for Protective Intelligence.  He served on the board of the Center for Mass Violence Response Studies and is an active member of the Greater Austin Crime Commission.   

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