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Author Anderson, Scott, 1959-

Title The man who tried to save the world : the dangerous life and mysterious disappearance of Fred Cuny / Scott Anderson.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [1999]
©1999

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Location Call No. Status
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  362.87 AND    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 CUNY, FRE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B CUNY FREDERICK A    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 374 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Map on lining papers.
Summary Fred Cuny spent his life working in dangerous places like Somolia and Bosnia, but he disappeared in Chechnya.
"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."-- Amazon.
Subject Cuny, Frederick C.
INTERTECT (Firm)
International relief.
Philanthropists -- Biography.
Disappeared persons -- Biography.
Chechnia (Russia) -- History -- Civil War, 1994- -- Biography.
Cuny, Frederick C. (OCoLC)fst00113149
INTERTECT (Firm) (OCoLC)fst00616487
Disappeared persons. (OCoLC)fst00894675
International relief. (OCoLC)fst00977110
Philanthropists. (OCoLC)fst01060593
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
ISBN 0385486650
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