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Jawbreaker
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  • Published: 15 December 2006
  • ISBN: 9780307351067
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $45.00

Jawbreaker

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

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27 Dec 2005
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27 Dec 2005
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27 Dec 2005
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15 Dec 2006
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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: $45.00
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About the authors

Gary Berntsen

Gary Berntsen served for more than two decades in the Central Intelligence Agency. He operated at the highest levels in the Middle East and Latin America, and led the CIA's major counterterrorist deployments in East Africa following the attacks on the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. In hunting down Osama bin Laden, he also commanded the most successful CIA paramilitary team ever assembled, a tale spellbindingly told in the New York Times bestseller Jawbreaker. Berntsen is a recipient of the CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal and Intelligence Star.
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