Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut)

The Spymaster of Baghdad, Margaret Coker

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The Spymaster of Baghdad

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Margaret Coker

"In the early years of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, with extremist violence raging in Baghdad, one Iraqi spymaster's intelligence unit emerged as a crucial player in the U.S. efforts to quell terrorism. Composed of ordinary Iraqis with little conventional espionage experience, the Falcons broke Al Qaeda's grip on their country only to be faced with its more ruthless successor: the Islamic State. These elite Iraqi spies secretly infiltrated the ranks of the world's most powerful terrorist group, saving countless lives in Iraq and the broader world. Centered on the Falcons' spymaster, Abu Ali al-Basri, and the relationship between two brothers in his unit, The Spymaster of Baghdad is the dramatic yet intimate account of the unit's exploits, which until now have been ignored or absent from official U.S. chronicles about Iraq. Harith al-Sudani is a rudderless college dropout when his all-star younger brother Munaf recruits him to join the Falcons. Munaf's talent for covert intelligence-gathering initially drew the spymaster's attention, yet it is Harith who volunteers for the most dangerous undercover mission imaginable: walking into the lion's den to live among the terrorists. Meanwhile, Abrar al-Kubaisi, a middle-class chemistry student, gets radicalized online after her sister is killed at an American military checkpoint, and leaves Baghdad to join the Islamic State. When snubbed by the group's chemical weapons program, she plots her own attack to poison Baghdad's drinking water before the Falcons can stop her."--, Provided by publisher

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