The reluctant spy

Rubriek: Textual/Printed/Reference Materials - Boek

Prijs: € 8.99

Rating: 0/5

☆

☆

☆

☆

☆

Verzending:
Direct beschikbaar

“A gripping page-turner that reads better than fiction, The Reluctant Spy is the true-life story of a U.S. spy on the frontlines of the war on terror.”—Peter Bergen, New York Times bestselling author of Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden

“A vivid picture of the tradeoffs facing America in the post-9/11 world.”—Jane Mayer, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Money

Long before the waterboarding controversy exploded in the media, one CIA agent had already gone public. In a groundbreaking 2007 interview with ABC News, John Kiriakou called waterboarding “torture”—but admitted that it probably worked. The Reluctant Spy, at once a confessional, an adventure story, and a chronicle of Kiriakou’s life in the CIA, stands as an important, eloquent piece of testimony from a committed American patriot.

In February 2002, Kiriakou was the head of counterterrorism in Pakistan. Under his command, in a spectacular raid coordinated with Pakistani agents and the CIA’s best intelligence analyst, Kiriakou’s field officers took down the infamous terrorist Abu Zubaydah. For days, Kiriakou became the wounded terrorist’s personal “bodyguard.” In circumstances stranger than fiction, as al-Qaeda agents scoured the streets for their captured leader, the best trauma surgeon in America was flown to Pakistan to make sure that Zubaydah did not die.

In The Reluctant Spy, Kiriakou takes us into the fight against an enemy fueled by fanaticism. He chillingly describes what it was like inside the CIA headquarters on the morning of 9/11, the agency leaders who stepped up and those who protected their careers. And in what may be the book’s most shocking revelation, he describes how the White House made plans to invade Iraq a full year before the CIA knew about it—or could attempt to stop it.

Chronicling both mind-boggling mistakes and heroic acts of individual courage, The Reluctant Spy is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the inner workings of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, the truth behind the torture debate, and the incredible dedication of ordinary men and women doing one of the most extraordinary jobs on earth.

• Bekijk alle specificaties

Doing Time Like A Spy

Rating: 0 / 5 | Prijs: € 11.99

On february 28 2013 after pleading guilty to violating the intelligence identities protection act john kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence his crime blowing the whistle on the cia s use of torture on al qaeda prisoners doing time like a spy is kiriakou s memoir of his twenty Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

How to Disappear and Live Off the Grid

Rating: 0 / 5 | Prijs: € 14.53

With an experienced cia officer as your teacher you ll gain the knowledge and necessary tools to protect yourself and the ones you love no matter where we go we leave tracks and clues of our existence without even knowing our electronic footprint becomes our invisible trail in this day in age Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis From CIA Coup to the Brink of War

Rating: 0 / 5 | Prijs: € 11.04

Why did the cia overthrow iran s democratically elected government and why has the united states treated iran as one of its biggest enemies for four decades is the trump administration s maximum pressure campaign working or will it precipitate a war with iran in the cia insider s guide t Verwacht over 4 weken .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Uitvoering: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 16 maart 2010

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: John Kiriakou

Tweede Auteur: Michael Ruby

Co Auteur: Michael Ruby

Hoofduitgeverij: Bantam

Lees dit ebook op: Android (smartphone en tablet)

Lees dit ebook op: Kobo e-reader

Lees dit ebook op: Desktop (Mac en Windows)

Lees dit ebook op: iOS (smartphone en tablet)

Lees dit ebook op: Windows (smartphone en tablet)

Toegankelijkheidskenmerken Ebook: Inhoudsopgave beschikbaar

Toegankelijkheidskenmerken Ebook: Aanpassingen mogelijk aan lettertype en tekstopmaak

Toegankelijkheidskenmerken Ebook: Visueel aanpasbaar

Toegankelijkheidssamenvatting Ebook: Accessibility metadata derived programmatically based on file type.

Details toegankelijkheidskenmerken Ebook: Gebruik van kleur

Inhoud van Ebook Bevat: Tekst

Toegankelijkheidsgevaren Ebook: Geen gevaren bekend

Fabrikantgegevens: De informatie van de fabrikant is momenteel niet beschikbaar.

Studieboek: Nee

EAN: 9780553907339

---