Agent Storm: My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA

Morten Storm, Paul Cruickshank, Tim Lister

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<div>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.<br><BR><I>Agent Storm</I> takes readers inside the jihadist world like never before, showing the daily life of zealous 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. <I>Agent Storm</I> is a captivating, utterly unique, real-life espionage tale.<BR></div>

Request Code
ZLIBIO1284001
Published
2014
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages
320
Language
English
Format
EPUB
ISBN-13
9780802123145
ISBN-10
0802123147