-Caveat Lector- from: Barnes & Noble <A HREF="http://shopbn.web.aol.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=3ZKZEOVJCE&m scssid=KMLR3B0A3VS12HVJ00LHRK14FLD7D2S2&pcount=0&srefer=&isbn=0385486650">barn esandnoble.com - Book Search </A> ----- The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny Scott Anderson Retail Price: $24.95 Our Price: $17.46 You Save: $7.49 (30%) In-Stock: Ships within 24 hours Format: Hardcover, 384pp. ISBN: 0385486650 Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated Pub. Date: May 1999 Quotes This is the kind of book I love: a can-of-worms odyssey by a journalist with balls of brass and a relentless determination to get to the truth. What starts out as a search for facts turns into a Conradesque epic, a journey into a real-life heart of darkness where every hall is mirrored, nothing is what it seems, and every truth uncovered leads to a deeper mystery. The Man Who Tried To Save The World has all the elements of a Hollywood blockbuster - and enigmatic Yank with military and spy connections, shadowy Russian spooks, mysterious women, bandits and brigands, Chechnyan warlords, even missing nukes - with this difference: it's all true. (Steven Pressfield, author of Gates of Fire) �Steven Pressfield Scott Anderson's The Man Who Tried To Save The World is a taut thriller of wartime intrigue that also happens to be true. Through the story of Fred Cuny's disappearance, Anderson gives us the story of Chechnya, and he does so with a reporter's exactitude and a novelist's sense of the tragic and absurd. A powerful, many-layered book. (Darcy Frey, author of The Last Shot) �Darcy Frey This is war at its most brutal, and war reporting at its finest. Scott Anderson's tour through Chechnya in search of a lost American humanitarian ranks as one of the most thrilling stories I've ever read. That Anderson made it out alive is incredible, but this is not just an adventure story, but a mystery of the first order. �Sebastian Junger Reviews and Commentary We love reading reviews�and the more of them, the better. We didn�t write the reviews below (other people did), but we thought you�d be interested in their comments. This Book was reviewed by: The Publisher, Esquire, Richard Beeston - The New York Times Book Review and Kirkus >From The Publisher: Fred Cuny spent his life in terrible places. In countries rent by war, earthquake, famine, and hurricane, Cuny saved hundreds of thousands of lives with a fearlessness that amazed all who knew him. A Texan, a teller of tall tales, a womanizer, and a renegade, Cuny grew ever more daring in his globe-trotting adventures as his motivations became murkier. Was he a danger junkie? A CIA spy? Or a man who truly believed he had the wits and courage to save the world? After twenty-five years of heroic work that earned Cuny the nickname "Master of Disaster," he set off to the rogue Russian republic of Chechnya, a land of gangsters and Islamic terrorists, a quasi-state engaged in an unimaginably savage war with a Russian army of drunken, brutal incompetents. Cuny went to try to stop the war, but for the first time in his life he was scared, unsure of himself in an insane landscape where betrayal and murder lurked behind every face. He failed to stop the horror, yet soon returned to Chechnya on a mysterious mission. Cuny was last seen on a lonely mountain road, headed for a rebel fortress that was being subjected to the most intense artillery bombardment since World War II. War correspondent Scott Anderson became obsessed with Cuny's fate, and ventured into the deadly war zone himself in search of answers to several haunting questions: Whom was Cuny working for? What happened to him, and why? Most powerfully, what sort of man believes he can save the world? >From Esquire: ...[I]mpressively obsessive reportage... >From Richard Beeston - The New York Times Book Review: ...Anderson has to work through several theories before getting to the truth about Fred Cuny....I [wonder] what he would have made of Kosovo and the humanitarian disaster unfolding in the region. If anyone could have figured a way out of this mess, it would have been Cuny. >From Kirkus: A masterful portrait of Fred Cuny, a renegade Texan who certainly deserved his nickname, ``Master of Disaster.'' It's hard to name a major disaster in the last 20 years that didn�t find Cuny at the helm of the rescue effort. Operation Provide Comfort, the joint civilian and military effort to save the Iraqi Kurds? Cuny was there and an organizational hero. Somalia? Cuny was there as well. Bosnia too, but that crisis turned his attention from providing relief to creating blueprints for solving man-made disasters, i.e., wars. That decision proved fatal. Cuny's demise came in Chechnya, where he mysteriously disappeared on a so-called relief mission. His body has never been found, despite an intense search by many, including those authorized by top US officials and billionaire philanthropist George Soros's Open Society Institute, which had hired Cuny on many occasions. At its best, the book reads like a Tom Clancy thriller, full of secret meetings, wrong leads, and political innuendo. Cuny's son is told by the Russians that his body, sans face, has been found. But how did they identify him? When the family finally gets the corpse, it's too short and the face turns out to have been obliterated by sulfuric acid. Why the body double? These are just a few of the many questions surrounding this larger-than-life man who dedicated himself to helping others and�not coincidentally, according to journalist and novelist Anderson (Triage, 1998)�to making a reputation for himself. Was Cuny a CIA operative? Was he killed by Chechan rebels after disinformation spread by Russian intelligence operatives claimed he was anti-Islam? Or was he killed, as Anderson posits, on the order of Chechan President Dudayev? Or something in between? We may never know, but this much is certainly obvious: Cuny was a man whose humanitarian impact cannot be denied and who will be missed. (8 pages b&w photos, not seen) . Copyright, Disclaimer, and Community Standards Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999 barnesandnoble.com llc ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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