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When two 7.5-mm rounds were shot point-blank into Gerald Bull's skull in March 1990, it was the end of a life that had begun with great promise and the beginning of a story that was to shock the world. Exactly who killed him was not known, but the real mystery was the man himself and his legacy. Born in Canada, Bull was the youngest person ever to receive a doctorate from the University of Toronto. His particular expertise was measuring the performance of objects in flight. In the 1960s, he was involved in a joint U.S-Canadian venture to develop huge guns capable of firing satellites into orbit, but his dream of doing so was forced to end when funding for the project was cancelled. Moving away from pure space research, he turned to designing artillery and shells It was Bull who secretly designed the first Star Wars system, twenty years before Reagan announced his version. It was Bull who designed special shells for the Navy to bombard North Vietnam. In the late 1970s, the CIA encouraged Bull to build a new gun for the South Africans, despite the U.S. arms embargo. It was artillery designed by Bull that confronted American troops during Operation Desert Storm artillery that had a longer range than anything comparable in the Allied memory. In this stunning work of investigative journalism, Bulls Eye combines the excitement and drama of a thriller with a cast of extraordinary characters from the worlds of intelligence, government, and the arms business. This is the story of the most talented designer of artillery this century a man betrayed, who in despair and anger fell into the world of seedy arms merchants and ambitious third world dictators. Praise Bulls Eye Adams makes a fine job of accounting for the character quirks and socioeconomic forces that turned an enthusiastic, essentially apolitical boffin into a cynical supplier of advanced weapons systems--and into the target of assassins... An engrossing tale of geopolitical intrigue and treachery. - Kirkus Reviews Praise for The Unnatural Alliance uncovers a close, multi-faceted strategic relationship that has been consciously nurtured in secret. Washington Report James Adams is acknowledged as one of the worlds leading experts on intelligence, covert warfare and terrorism and has written 15 bestselling books around those subjects. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England and now lives in Ashland, Oregon. He worked at The London Sunday Times as both the Defense Correspondent and Managing Editor. He then became CEO of United Press International, founded a cyber intelligence company and a virtual intelligence agency. He was on the Board of the National Security Agency where he was responsible for creating a new strategic plan for Signals Intelligence and he was also Chairman of the Technology Advisory Panel to oversee NSAs multi-billion dollar investment in new technology.