The shadow patrol
By: Alex Berenson
Series: John Wells -- 6
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780755381395; 9780755381388
Subjects: Drug traffic; Intelligence officers; Afghan War (2001- ) fast (OCoLC)fst01695175; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Fiction; John Wells (Fictitious character); United States; Americans; Foreign countries; Taliban; Undercover operations; Afghan War, 2001-
Description: A killer is on the loose. In 2009, the CIA officers in Afghanistan's Kabul Station received information from a reliable source regarding the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. But when they followed the informant to bin Laden's apparent location, they discovered it was a deadly trap. The man blew himself up, taking the chief of station and several senior officers with him. Two years later, the station still hasn't recovered and the situation has deteriorated. Every initiative meets with failure. No one knows who to trust. In desperation, John Wells' old CIA bosses ask him to go over and investigate. Reluctantly, Wells agrees but what he finds when he gets there is more than a station in disarray. There is a full-blown military drug-smuggling operation underway, and worse, a traitor is leaking information to the Taliban. Americans are dying, and an American is responsible - and this is just the beginning. Only Wells stands in the traitor's way -- for now.
Table of contents: title: Two years after the CIA's Kabul station suffered an attack, it is still floundering and the CIA chiefs wonder if the Taliban has infiltrated the station. John Wells is sent to investigate and finds a station in disarray. There is a full-blown military drug-smuggling operation underway, and worse, a traitor is leaking information to the Taliban. Americans are dying, and an American is responsible; title: and this is just the beginning. Only Wells stands in the traitor's way ... for now.