It’s no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time, in this memoir, an active Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America.
A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury 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 Americans in as public and devastating a way "as possible. It’s a furious race against the clock for Elnoury 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 Americans, it will be a revelation that he and his team even exist, let alone the vital and dangerous work they do keeping all Americans safe.
347 pages (September 2017)
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Title Read-alikes: Gray Day: my undercover mission to expose America's first cyber spy by Eric O'Neill; The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright; Ghost: confessions of a counterterrorism agent by Fred Burton; Priceless: how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures by Robert K. Wittman; My Jihad: the true story of an American mujahid's amazing journey from Usama Bin Laden's training camps to counterterrorism with the FBI and CIA by Aukai Collins; Life Undercover: coming of age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox; The Targeter by Nada Bakos; Terrorist Hunter; Agent Storm: my life inside Al Qaeda and the CIA by Morten Storm; Killer Elite by Michael Smith; American Kingpin: the epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton; Get the Truth: former CIA officers teach you how to persuade anyone to tell all by Philip Houston; and The Art of Intelligence: lessons from a life in the CIA's clandestine service by Henry A. Crumpton.
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