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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Written with the pacing of a thriller, SURPRISE, KILL, VANISH brings to vivid life the sheer pandemonium and chaos, as well as the unforgettable human will to survive and the intellectual challenge of not giving up hope that define paramilitary and intelligence work. Jacobsen's exclusive interviews-with members of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service (equivalent to the Pentagon's generals), its counterterrorism chiefs, targeting officers, and Special...
3) Troublemaker
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For Morgan Yancy, an operative and team leader in a paramilitary group, nothing comes before his job. But when he's ambushed and almost killed, his supervisor is determined to find out who's after the members of his elite squad--and why. Due to worries that this unknown enemy will strike again, Morgan is sent to a remote location and told to lay low and stay vigilant. But between a tempting housemate he's determined to protect and a deadly threat...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out--with military precision--an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Using the dramatic rescue efforts in Kabul as his framework, a New York Times best-selling author presents this powerful and dramatic eyewitness account in which he weaves a personal history of the war's long progression, beginning with the initial invasion in the months after 9/11.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Founded by former Navy SEAL Erik Prince in 1997, Blackwater recruited special forces veterans and others to take on the riskiest security jobs in the world. As its reputation grew, government demand for its services escalated and Blackwater's men eventually completed nearly one hundred thousand missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Prince explains his original goal of building an elite center for military and law enforcement training and tells the...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA (the precursor of today's national clandestine service), flush with money and burning with determination to roll back the Iron Curtain, embarked on the first paramilitary operation in the history of the agency. They hatched an elaborate plan, coordinated with the British Secret Intelligence Service, to foment popular rebellion and detach Albania, the weakest of the Soviet satellites in Europe, from Moscow's...
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