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The terrorist watch: inside the desperate race to stop the next attack

✍ Scribed by Ronald Kessler

Book ID: 100148389
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group;Three Rivers Press
Year: 2008
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 315 KB
Edition: 1st pbk. ed
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1299244351

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✦ Synopsis

"You make a mistake, there are dead people." —FBI Special Agent Art Cummings, head of international counterterrorism operations 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...

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