The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny Anderson Scott
The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny Anderson Scott A swashbuckling Texan, a teller of tall tales, a womanizer, and a renegade, Fred Cuny…
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The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny Anderson Scott
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. 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. Cuny earned his nickname "Master of Disaster" for his exploits in Kurdistan, Somalia, and Bosnia.
Was he a CIA spy? Shortly thereafter, he disappeared in the war-rocked highlands, never to be seen again.Who was Cuny really working for? Who killed him, and why?
In search of the answers, Scott Anderson traveled to Chechnya on a hazardous journey