American radical
Subtitle: inside the world of an undercover muslim FBI agent
By: Tamer Elnoury with Kevin Maurer
Contributors: Maurer, Kevin, author
Publisher: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781101986158
Subjects: United States; Officials and employees; Terrorism; Biography; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Description: It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals are to take out as many Americans in as public and devastating a way possible. It's a furious race against the clock for Tamer and his unit to stop them before they can implement their plans. Yet as new as this war still is, the techniques are as old as time: Listen, record, and prove terrorist intent --
Table of contents: title: Super high; title: I am a Muslim; title: No fear; title: Dirty Arabs group; title: Tamer Elnoury; title: Take his temperature; title: The bump; title: Live amongst them to defeat them; title: Uncle Ibrahim; title: Gone fishing; title: Apartment 23; title: The road trip; title: The imam complex; title: The Christian burial speech; title: Best of the Mujahideen; title: Pizza with terrorists; title: The bridge; title: Team Chiheb; title: The responsible one; title: The radicalizer; title: Spitting in the eyes of god; title: Operation happy new year; title: High five; title: The sixth pillar; title: Eyes of Allah; title: Stay true to Islam; title: The end; title: T-bags; title: Epilogue : we're everyone.