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A stunning 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 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 The Triple Agent, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Joby Warrick 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. Combining the powerful momentum of Black Hawk Down with the institutional insight of Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side, Warrick takes the readers on a harrowing journey from the slums of Amman to the inner chambers of the White House in an untold true story of miscalculation, deception, and revenge.
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 The Triple Agent, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Joby Warrick 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. Combining the powerful momentum of Black Hawk Down with the institutional insight of Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side, Warrick takes the readers on a harrowing journey from the slums of Amman to the inner chambers of the White House in an untold true story of miscalculation, deception, and revenge.
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This book was worth its wait. It is insightful and educative, giving the reader an-easy-to-relate perspective of life in the different arenas the CIA got involved in in its war to make America safe. It is written in an in-depth manner that brings to live the tensions, emotions, reasoning and motives of the players involved.
It portrays most intelligence missions as they are---fraught with danger, mistakes, failures and successes. I read it after reading Triple Agent Double Cross. Now I am hooked to thrillers, spy and intelligence novels with political and world undertones. Well done Warrick
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It portrays most intelligence missions as they are---fraught with danger, mistakes, failures and successes. I read it after reading Triple Agent Double Cross. Now I am hooked to thrillers, spy and intelligence novels with political and world undertones. Well done Warrick
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This is a rather well researched account of how al-Qaeda managed to infiltrate the CIA. The author follows the doctor from beginning to end, although in the Prologue he effectively tells the reader how the story will end but he does it in such a way that you want to continue reading the book as quickly as possible to discover all the details of the story. The whole book reads like a spy thriller which in a way it is, except that it is true. All warfare is based on deception says Sun Tzu. This book is a fine example why this is the case. That the hunt for Osama Bin Laden was a bit of an obsession for the Americans should not come as a surprise at all. The author tells in the book's Epilogue how he was disposed off.
I didn't particularly like the title of the book because the guy never struck as a double or triple agent but I guess the author chose it because it is a bit of an eye catcher.
If you like this book you also might want to read Can Intervention Work?: Amnesty International Global Ethics Series because it gives a lot of background on the Afghanistan campaign and why it is not working out the way it was supposed to have.
I didn't particularly like the title of the book because the guy never struck as a double or triple agent but I guess the author chose it because it is a bit of an eye catcher.
If you like this book you also might want to read Can Intervention Work?: Amnesty International Global Ethics Series because it gives a lot of background on the Afghanistan campaign and why it is not working out the way it was supposed to have.
Format:Kindle Edition
the only down side for someone reading this purely as a novel and less for infomation is that it is not a top literary work.
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