The great war of our time
Subtitle: the CIA's fight against terrorism-- from al Qa'ida to ISIS
By: Michael Morell with Bill Harlow
Contributors: Harlow, Bill, 1950- author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Twelve
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781455585663; 9781455590551
Subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Qaida (Organization); Officials and employees; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States; Biography; Terrorism; Prevention
Description: "THE GREAT WAR OF OUR TIME offers an unprecedented assessment of the CIA while at the forefront of our nation's war against al-Qa'ida and during the most remarkable period in the history of the Agency. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation," Michael Morell is a top CIA officer who saw it all--the only person with President Bush on 9/11/01 and with President Obama on 5/1/11 when Usama Bin Laden was brought to justice. Like Ghost Wars, See No Evil, and At the Center of the Storm, THE GREAT WAR OF OUR TIME will be a vivid, newsmaking account of the CIA, a life of secrets and a war in the shadows"--

Morell offers an unprecedented assessment of the CIA while at the forefront of our nation's war against al-Qa'ida and during the most remarkable period in the history of the Agency. A top CIA officer who played a critical role in the most important counterterrorism events of the past two decades, Morell offers an unblinking and insightful assessment of CIA's counterterrorism successes and failures of the past twenty years and, perhaps most important, shows readers that the threat of terrorism did not die with Bin Ladin in Abbottabad.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Opening salvos; title: The President and the Sheikh; title: The darkest hours; title: The finest hours; title: An imperfect storm; title: Al Qa'ida's nine lives; title: No Mickey Mouse operation; title: Al Qa'ida spring; title: 9/11/2012; title: Stalking points; title: Tortured logic; title: Breach of trust; title: The long war ahead; title: Carved in stone.