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"Fascinating and immensely entertaining. It reads(or listens...) like a James Bond movie script or science fiction novel. The crazy part is that it's true - at least what we seem to know about it. Either way, it's a case steady of the extremes the ..."
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A true tale of espionage and engineering set at the height of the Cold War, a mix between The Hunt for Red October and Argo, about how the CIA, the U.S. Navy, and America's most eccentric mogul spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal...
Traces America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the years since 9/11, and how the U.S. efforts in the Afghan War faltered because of a failure to understand the...
A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, journalist Megan K. Stack, a twenty-five-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding...
In this groundbreaking book of new reportage, journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us into the heart of the War on Terror's most dangerous battlefields as he chases down the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan to Pakistan...