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The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
Doubleday
July 2011
On Sale: July 19, 2011
272 pages
ISBN: 0385534183
EAN: 9780385534185
Hardcover
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A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who
penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest
reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on
terror.
In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters
gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a
rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian
double-agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda.
For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the
terrorist network and now promised to help the CIA
assassinate Osama bin Laden’s top deputy. Instead, as he
stepped from his car, he detonated a thirty-pound bomb
strapped to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA
operatives, the agency’s worst loss of life in decades.
In The Triple Agent, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Joby
Warrick takes us deep inside the CIA’s secret war against
al-Qaeda, a war that pits robotic planes and laser-guided
missiles against a cunning enemy intent on unleashing
carnage in American cities. Flitting precariously between
the two sides was Balawi, a young man with extraordinary
gifts who managed to win the confidence of hardened
terrorists as well as veteran spymasters. With his
breathtaking accounts from inside al-Qaeda’s lair, Balawi
appeared poised to become America’s greatest double-agent in
half a century—but he was not at all what he seemed.
Combining the powerful momentum of Black Hawk Down with the
institutional insight of Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side, Warrick
takes the readers on a harrowing journey from the slums of
Amman to the inner chambers of the White House in an untold
true story of miscalculation, deception, and revenge.
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