Bibliograph

Agent Storm, my life inside Al Qaeda and the CIA, Morten Storm with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister

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Agent Storm, my life inside Al Qaeda and the CIA, Morten Storm with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Agent Storm

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

886536176

Responsibility statement

Morten Storm with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister

Sub title

my life inside Al Qaeda and the CIA

Summary

Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. A six-foot-one, red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens throwing punches with a biker gang and getting thrown in jail. But after reading a book about the Prophet Mohammed, Storm converted to Islam and embarked on a decadelong transformation that would lead him from a militant madrasah in Yemen to close friendship with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric--and then to becoming a double agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence. This is the searing memoir of a young man who sought purpose in a community of believers and of a jihadi who named his son Osama after 9/11. It is also the story of a man who later not oly repudiated extremism but, in a quest for atonement, lived undercover in extreme danger for five years, traveling the world to complete numerous high-profile missions. As a double agent, Morten Storm single-handedly thwarted attacks in the West and led the CIA to some of the world's most dangerous terrorists, all the while knowing his own life might be expendable. Through Storm's eyes, Agent Storm takes readers inside the jihadist world like never before, showing the daily life of idealistic men set on mass murder, from dodging drones with al Qaeda leaders in the Arabian Desert to training in extremist gyms in Britain to carrying out supply drops in Kenya. The book also provides a tantalizing look at the world's most powerful spy agencies: their tradecraft, rivalries, and late-night carousing, as well as their ruthless use of a beautiful blonde in an ambitious honey trap. Filled with hair-raising close calls, coded messages, and chilling duplicity, Agent Storm is a captivating real-life thriller

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