American Radical : Inside the world of an undercover Muslim FBI agent

ISBN-13: 9780593079751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str.

Tamer Elnoury

Opis

The true story of the undercover Muslim FBI agent risking his life to save yours

As seen on BBC newsAs featured on BBC Radio 4: Today with Frank Gardner'In order to defeat your enemy, you must first understand them.' - Tamer ElnouryTamer Elnoury, a long-time undercover agent, joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals are to take out as many people in as public and devastating a way as possible. It's a furious race against the clock for Tamer and his unit to stop them before they can implement their plans. Yet as new as this war still is, the techniques are as old as time. Listen, record and prove terrorist intent.Due to his ongoing work for the FBI, Elnoury writes under a pseudonym. An Arabic-speaking Muslim American, a patriot, a hero. To many people, it will be a revelation that he and his team even exist, let alone the vital and dangerous work they do keeping all of us safe.It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. Now, for the first time, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America.

Recenzje

American Radical is a kinetic account of Elnoury's undercover career... about his life infiltrating Islamist terror cells, averting mass murder, bringing evil people to justice and so on. It is the first time an active FBI agent has published a book remotely like it. The Times

O autorze

Elnoury, TamerTamer Elnoury was born in Egypt and emigrated to the United States before his fifth birthday. Elnoury began his career in law enforcement in 1995. After a brief stint with a fugitive task force, he began working in undercover narcotics. Elnoury worked in more than 2,500 narcotics investigations as well as political corruption, gun trafficking and child abuse cases. In 2008, Elnoury began working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He joined an elite, covert, counterterrorism unit. Elnoury has worked cases all over the world for multiple government agencies. Maurer, KevinKevin Maurer is an award winning journalist and the bestselling coauthor, with Mark Owen, of No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden. He has covered war and terrorism for more than a decade.