Name: Searching for Lone Star. A Tale of Two Brothers (en Inglés)
SKU: 68378108
Price: 537.53 MXN
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Author: Mike Farris;Paul Heckmann
ISBN: 9780875659862

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Searching for Lone Star. A Tale of Two Brothers (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

TCU Press

Autor

Mike Farris;Paul Heckmann

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

302

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2 cm

ISBN13

9780875659862

Searching for Lone Star. A Tale of Two Brothers (en Inglés)

Mike Farris;Paul Heckmann (Autor) · TCU Press · Tapa Blanda

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In 2000, CIA director George J. Tenet revealed the identities of some of those who were represented by nameless stars on the CIA’s Memorial Wall at its headquarters. Among those was a Texan named John W. Kearns. John served as a special operations officer in the so-called “secret war” in Laos, the CIA’s paramilitary operation during the Vietnam War. John, whose call sign was, fittingly, “Lone Star,” was killed in action in 1972. He was posthumously awarded the CIA’s highest honor, the Intelligence Star, “in recognition of his courageous performance under hazardous conditions.”

For years, John’s story stayed pretty well unknown, shrouded in secrecy by classified government documents and mentioned only in passing in books about the “secret war.” Until now. Paul Heckmann, with the assistance of Mike Farris, tells his own personal story of adoption as a child and struggles with addiction that, later in life, led him to search for his biological family—and to discover a hero half-brother he had never known. While digging deeper into John’s story of heroism, he struggled with new and seemingly insurmountable physical difficulties of his own.

Searching for Lone Star tells the story of two brothers, neither of whom knew about the other until long after the heroic death of the older that inspired the younger to overcome his own adversity. It is a story of sacrifice and inspiration, of love and loss, and, ultimately, of family.