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Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack
Crown
November 2007
On Sale: November 13, 2007
272 pages ISBN: 0307382133 EAN: 9780307382139 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA
counterterrorism operatives, New York Times bestselling
author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling story of
terrorists’ relentless efforts to mount another devastating
attack on the United States and of the heroic efforts being
made to stop those plots. Kessler takes you inside the war rooms of this battle—from
the newly created National Counterterrorism Center to FBI
headquarters, from the CIA to the National Security Agency,
from the Pentagon to the Oval Office—to explain why we have
gone so long since 9/11 without a successful attack and to
reveal the many close calls we never hear about. The race to
stop the terrorists, Kessler shows, is more desperate than ever. Based on exclusive interviews with FBI Director Robert
Mueller, CIA Director Michael Hayden, White House
Counterterrorism Chief Fran Townsend, and dozens of key
intelligence operatives at all levels, The Terrorist Watch: • tells the previously unreported story of how the United
States helped thwart the 2006 London terrorist plot, broke
up terrorist cells in Canada, and prevented numerous other
attacks
• reveals how the CIA and FBI have rolled up more than 5,000
terrorists worldwide since 9/11
• provides a stunning insider’s account from the FBI agent
who spent eight months debriefing Saddam Hussein after his
capture
• pinpoints press leaks that have resulted in CIA agents’
deaths, caused foreign countries to stop cooperating on key
investigations, and even tipped off Osama bin Laden to U.S.
surveillance
• destroys numerous media myths, such as the canard that the
FBI and CIA still don’t cooperate on investigations
• discloses the truth about the number of U.S. mosques where
imans preach jihad
• shows how the intelligence community has radically changed
its mission—and how the media have misled the public about
those changes Never before has a journalist gained such access to the FBI,
the CIA, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the other
agencies that are doing the unheralded work of finding and
capturing terrorists. Ronald Kessler’s you-are-there narrative tells the real
story of the war on terror and will transform the way you
view the greatest problem of our age.
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