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The Man Who Tried to Save the World

The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of an American Hero

By Scott Anderson

By Scott Anderson

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Paperback $17.95

May 16, 2000 | ISBN 9780385486668

The Man Who Tried to Save the World by Scott Anderson
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May 16, 2000 | ISBN 9780385486668

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About The Man Who Tried to Save the World

A swashbuckling Texan, a teller of tall tales, a womanizer, and a renegade, Fred Cuny spent his life in countries rent by war, famine, and natural disasters, saving many thousands of lives through his innovative and sometimes controversial methods of relief work. Cuny earned his nickname "Master of Disaster" for his exploits in Kurdistan, Somalia, and Bosnia. But when he arrived in the rogue Russian republic of Chechnya in the spring of 1995, raring to go and eager to put his ample funds from George Soros to good use, he found himself in the midst of an unimaginably savage war of independence, unlike any he had ever before encountered. Shortly thereafter, he disappeared in the war-rocked highlands, never to be seen again.

Who was Cuny really working for? Was he a CIA spy? Who killed him, and why? In search of the answers, Scott Anderson traveled to Chechnya on a hazardous journey that started as as a magazine assignment and ended as a personal mission. The result is a galvanizing adventure story, a chilling picture of "the  new world order," and a tour de force of literary journalism.

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About Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson is a veteran war correspondent who has reported from Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Sudan, Bosnia, El Salvador and many other strife-torn countries. A frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, his work has also appeared… More about Scott Anderson

Product Details

Category: Biography & Memoir | Domestic Politics | European World History

Paperback | $17.95
Published by Anchor
May 16, 2000 | 400 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385486668

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Praise

"One of the most thrilling stories I have ever read…This is not just an adventure story, but a mystery of the first order." –Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm

"A mystery story, straight out of a plot from John LeCarr&#233." —The New York Times Book Review

"Forget Mount Everest. Forget the perfect storm. For pure adrenaline, there’s nothing like the war zone." —Time Out New York

"One of the most important books to be published since the fall of the Berlin Wall…A great, epic mystery of our day." —The New York Observer

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