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  • Published: 15 December 2006
  • ISBN: 9780307351067
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $37.99

Jawbreaker

The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander



For CIA buffs who can't get enough of books like Bob Baer's See No Evil and Anonymous' Imperial Hubris...for the Afghanistan-interested who pored over Steve Coll's Ghost Wars and Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner...and for the action junkies who mainlined Richard Marcinko's Rogue Warrior.

The Book the CIA Doesn’t Want You to Read

Gary Berntsen, the CIA’s key commander coordinating the fight against the Taliban forces around Kabul, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit—and cornering—of Osama bin Laden, and the reason the terrorist leader escaped American retribution. As disturbingly eye-opening as it is adrenaline-charged, Jawbreaker races from CIA war rooms to diplomatic offices to mountaintop redoubts to paint a vivid portrait of a new kind of warfare, showing what can and should be done to deal a death blow to freedom’s enemies.

  • Published: 15 December 2006
  • ISBN: 9780307351067
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $37.99