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 (pages 369-[393]) and index

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autobiography

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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 in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. But after a decade of jihadi life, he not only repudiated extremism but, in a quest for atonement, became a double agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence. 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 and performing supply drops in Kenya. The book also provides a tantalizing look at his dangerous life undercover, as Storm traveled the world for missions targeting its most dangerous terrorists, and into 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. Agent Storm is a captivating real-life thriller.--From publisher description

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