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Jawbreaker

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

Gary Berntsen Ralph Pezzullo

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English
Crown Publishers
15 December 2006
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.
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Imprint:   Crown Publishers
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 202mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   301g
ISBN:   9780307351067
ISBN 10:   0307351068
Pages:   328
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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

A thrilling read... Berntsen did his best to try to get bin Laden; many in Washington have yet to do theirs. -- Washington Post <br> Gripping . . . this honest account doesn't do the president any favors. -- Frank Rich, New York Times <br> The hunt for Osama bin Laden is the story of courageous CIA officers, like Gary Berntsen, repeatedly finding him and U.S. political and military leaders refusing to kill him. Jawbreaker -- which CIA leaders tried to suppress to protect America's bipartisan political elite and its military sycophants-- precisely describes the eleventh such opportunity since 1998, and again shows that uniformed bureaucrats masquerading as U.S. generals let bin Laden escape. -- Michael Scheuer, author of Imperial Hubris and Through Our Enemies' Eyes <br> Jawbreaker is a real page turner . . . Berntsen was the CIA's ' go to guy' when it came to leading in Afghanistan, owing to his exceptional operational and leadership skills in situations involving the threat of immediate danger. Berntsen is brave and bold and a true American hero. -- Cofer Black, former Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorism Center


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