The great war of our time : the CIA's fight against terrorism--from al Qa'ida to ISIS /
Michael Morell with Bill Harlow.
- First edition.
- xvi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Opening salvos -- The President and the Sheikh -- The darkest hours -- The finest hours -- An imperfect storm -- Al Qa'ida's nine lives -- No Mickey Mouse operation -- Al Qa'ida spring -- 9/11/2012 -- Stalking points -- Tortured logic -- Breach of trust -- The long war ahead -- Carved in stone.
"Called the "Bob Gates of his generation," Michael Morell is a top CIA officer who saw it all--the only person with President Bush on 9/11/01 and with President Obama on 5/1/11 when Usama Bin Laden was brought to justice." Morrell offers "an assessment of [the] CIA's counterterrorism successes and failures of the past twenty years and,...shows readers that the threat of terrorism did not die with Bin Ladin in Abbottabad."--
United States. Central Intelligence Agency. United States. Central Intelligence Agency --Officials and employees--Biography. Qaida (Organization)
Terrorism--Prevention.--United States War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. TRUE CRIME / Espionage. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence.