| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index. |
| Contents |
Obsession -- Haunted -- The doctor -- Humiliation -- The informant -- Targets -- The jihadist -- Pressure -- Chief -- The double agent -- Dangle -- Rehearsal -- The triple agent -- No God but God -- The martyr -- Fallen -- Resolve -- Memorial Day. |
| Summary |
In December 2009, a group of the CIA's top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised to help the CIA assassinate Osama bin Laden's top deputy. Instead, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a thirty-pound bomb strapped to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives, the agency's worst loss of life in decades. In this book the author takes us deep inside the CIA's secret war against al-Qaeda, a war that pits robotic planes and laser guided missiles against a cunning enemy intent on unleashing carnage in American cities. Flitting precariously between the two sides was Balawi, a young man with extraordinary gifts who managed to win the confidence of hardened terrorists as well as veteran spymasters. With his breathtaking accounts from inside al-Qaeda's lair, Balawi appeared poised to become America's greatest double agent in half a century, but he was not at all what he seemed. |
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Balawi, Humam Khalil al-
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Qaida (Organization) -- Biography.
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United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Biography.
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Counterinsurgency -- Middle East.
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Suicide bombers -- Afghanistan -- Khowst -- Biography.
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Informers -- Jordan -- Biography.
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Spies -- Jordan -- Biography.
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Physicians -- Jordan -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780385534185 |
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0385534183 |
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