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See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
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Include books by the same authorAgainst All Enemies
Richard A. Clarke · 336 pages
Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent
Fred Burton · 276 pages
For decades, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, has secretly been on the front lines in the fight to keep Americans safe around the world. Now, in this hard-hitting memoir, Burton emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced, world-wise few.In the mid-eighties, the i
Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda
Omar Nasiri · 337 pages
A Moroccan operative for British and French intelligence describes his time undercover inside the fundamentalist group Al Qaeda, from Islamist cells in Belgium to the training camps of Afghanistan and radical mosques in London.
Son of Hamas
Mosab Hassan Yousef, mS`b Hsn ywsf · 273 pages
The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, reveals new information about the world's most dangerous terrorist organization and unveils the truth about his own role, his agonizing separation from family and homeland, the dangerous decision to make his newfound faith public, and his belief that the Christian mandate to "love your enemies" is the o
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
Frederick Forsyth · 332 pages
"From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever--his own"-- He was the RAF's youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war; the Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him. And that's just for starters. Forsyth has been
The Spy Wore Red
Aline, Countess of Romanones · 326 pages
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
George Tenet · 549 pages
Tenet's memoir of his life at the CIA--a revelatory look at the inner workings of America's top intelligence agency and its dealings with national leaders at home and abroad. Tenet illuminates how the country was prepared--and not prepared--to deal with a world full of new and deadly threats. Beginning with his installation as Director in 1997, he unfolds the events that led up to 9/11: his declar
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
Mark Mazzetti · 400 pages
An account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world's dark spaces: the new American way of war.
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story
Tamim Ansary, Mir Tamim Ansary · 292 pages
"The day after Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an anguished e-mail to twenty friends, discussing the attack from his perspective as an Afghan American. That message, spreading via the Internet, reached and touched millions of people around the world." "Now Ansary gives us West of Kabul, East of New York, an account of a life lived in two very
Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story
Jack Devine, Vernon Loeb · 324 pages
A CIA veteran with extensive experience in covert operations presents a guide to the art of spycraft while illuminating the CIA's essential role, sharing a cautionary message about its recent transition toward paramilitary activities.
Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
Michael Hingson · 256 pages
Excellent! This is such a great book about a wonderful man who is blind and his guide dog, who together survived the terrorist attack on our nation 9/11/2001.
I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
Souad Mekhennet · 361 pages
"The journalist who broke the "Jihadi John" story draws on her personal experience to bridge the gap between the Muslim world and the West and explain the rise of Islamic radicalism Souad Mekhennet has lived her entire life between worlds. The daughter of a Turkish mother and a Moroccan father, she was born and educated in Germany and has worked for several American newspapers. Since the 9/11 atta
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
Joby Warrick · 248 pages
This work is a narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror. 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
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States · 567 pages
Final report of the National Commission on terrorist attacks upon the United States. The result of months of intensive investigations and inquiries by a specially appointed bipartisan panel. While the commission notes that future attacks are probably inevitable, a coordinated preventive effort along with a clear plan to respond with efficiency can offer Americans some hope in a post-9/11 world.
The File: A Personal History
Timothy Garton Ash · 256 pages
In 1978, fresh out of Oxford, Timothy Garton Ash set out for Berlin to see what he could learn from the divided city about freedom and despotism. As he moved from west to east - from Berlin glamour to Berlin danger - the East German secret police, the so-called Stasi, was compiling a secret file on his activities, monitoring his Berlin days and nights and tracking his growing involvement with the
The Autobiography Of The Woman The Gestapo Called The White Mouse
Nancy Wake · 206 pages
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
John le Carre
Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal · 400 pages
The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy. This book unveils the defining and most dangerous operations that have shaped Israel and the world at large from the agency's more than sixty-year history, among them: the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the eradication of Black September, the destruction of the Syria
In the Presence of My Enemies
Gracia Burnham, Dean Merrill · 320 pages
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee—A Look Inside North Korea
Jang Jin-sung · 368 pages
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · 364 pages
Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
Jean Sasson, Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden · 334 pages