num_pages: 320
description: Morten Storm was an unlikely Jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane Storm spent his teens in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen named his son Osama and became close friends with Anwar al-Awlaki the American-born terrorist cleric. But after a decade of Jihadi life he not only repudiated extremism but in a quest for atonement became a double agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence.Agent Storm takes readers inside the jihadist world like never before showing the daily life of zealous men set on mass murder from dodging drones with al-Qaeda leaders in the Arabian desert to training in extremist gyms in Britain and performing supply drops in Kenya. The book also provides a tantalizing look at his dangerous life undercover as Storm traveled the world for missions targeting its most dangerous terrorists  and into the worlds most powerful spy agencies: their tradecraft rivalries and late-night carousing as well as their ruthless use of a beautiful blonde in an ambitious honey trap. Agent Storm is a captivating utterly unique real-life espionage tale.
language: English
title: Agent Storm: My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA
publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press