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A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian

who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest

reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on

terror.

In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters

gathered at a base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising

superspy: Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent who had

infiltrated the inner circle of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent

solid intelligence on Osama bin Laden’s operations center and now

promised to help the CIA destroy the terrorist network. Instead, as

he stepped from his car, he detonated a thirty-pound bomb strapped

to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives, the agen?cy’s

worst loss of life in decades.

In The Triple Agent, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Joby

Warrick takes us deep inside the CIA’s war against al-Qaeda. His

account of the Khost attack exposes dangerous weak?nesses in an

intelligence agency that has become overly reliant on

remote-controlled drones, and he reveals the mysterious al-Balawi

to be a formidable, multilayered oppo?nent. Combining the powerful

momentum of Black Hawk Down with the institutional insight

of Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side, Warrick leads us to top

levels of the Obama administration, where desperation to capture

bin Laden led to tragic mistakes, and into the CIA, where the

stinging defeat set off new clashes over spycraft and ignited a

thirst for revenge.

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JOBY WARRICK covers intelligence for the

Washington Post, where he has been a reporter since 1996. He

is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and has appeared on CNN, Fox, and

PBS.

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媒体评论

Praise for

The Triple Agent

"Mr. Warrick has reconstructed, in vivid and telling detail, the

sequence of events that led Humam al-Balawi to kill seven CIA

operatives in a suicide attack in Afghanistan in December

2009....It is a chilling tale, told with skill and verve."

—

The Economist

"

The Triple Agent

is a page turner....It's a must-read for

counterterrorism and spy junkies."

—

Associated Press

"Warrick is a brilliant reporter and a fine writer.... This is as

gripping a true-life spy saga as I've read in years."

—Bob Drogin,

LA Times

"A riveting, heart-wrenching tale."

—

The Washington Post

"[An] accessible and fast-paced debut....[Warrick] gives this story

a cinematic feel with suspensful foreshadowing, rich character

development...and a remarkable amount of heart."

—

Publishers Weekly

"Warrick has pieced together a fast-paced and compelling narrative

that reads like a Hollywood screenplay. He provides a rare look at

the careers and personal lives of CIA officers, including the

courageous women who played key roles....Spellbinding."

—

The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Insightful and riveting.... Mr. Warrick adds a wealth of new

detail to a narrative that reads like the best spy fiction."

—

The Washington Times

"

The Triple Agent

is a spy thriller like no other. Never has

such a giant intelligence debacle been chronicled this vividly,

this intimately. Riveting and harrowing, laden with deception and

duplicity, it is a remarkable, behind-the-curtain account of the

CIA’s darkest day in Afghanistan."

—Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of

Imperial Life in the Emerald

City

“Absolutely first-rate, breakthrough reporting.”

—Bob Woodward, author of

Obama’s

Wars

“

The Triple Agent

is a superlative

piece of reporting and writing. Joby Warrick manages to take the

reader inside the CIA, Jordanian intelligence, and al-Qaeda. His

intimate portraits of intelligence officers and the terrorists they

stalk are unforgettable.

The Triple Agent

is one of the best

true-life spy stories I have ever read.”

—David Ignatius, columnist for the

Washington Post

and

author of

Bloodmoney

“A startling and

memorable account of daring, treachery, and catastrophe in the

CIA’s war against al-Qaeda. The deadly buzz of unmanned drones, the

fanatical drive of a suicide bomber, and the desperate hopes of the

intelligence agents at outpost Khost are drawn together in a

powerful and fast-paced story of our time.”

—David E. Hoffman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of

The Dead

Hand

“

The Triple Agent

is by turns

harrowing and heartbreaking, fascinating and frightening. Joby

Warrick takes the reader deep inside the CIA’s biggest disaster

since September 11, a monumental blunder that allowed an al-Qaeda

mole, carrying a thirty-pound bomb, into the agency’s highly

secret, frontline outpost along the Afghan border with Pakistan.

The blast left seven agency employees dead and many questions

unanswered, questions that Warrick skillfully answers in a tale

that reads like a thriller and stretches from the dusty back alleys

of Waziristan to the plush executive floor at Langley.”

—James Bamford, author of the bestselling

The Puzzle

Palace

,

Body of Secrets

, and

The Shadow

Factory

书籍介绍

A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror.

In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent who had infiltrated the inner circle of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent solid intelligence on Osama bin Laden’s operations center and now promised to help the CIA destroy the terrorist network. Instead, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a thirty-pound bomb strapped to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives, the agency’s worst loss of life in decades.

In The Triple Agent , Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Joby Warrick takes us deep inside the CIA’s war against al-Qaeda. His account of the Khost attack exposes dangerous weaknesses in an intelligence agency that has become overly reliant on remote-controlled drones, and he reveals the mysterious al-Balawi to be a formidable, multilayered opponent. Combining the powerful momentum of Black Hawk Down with the institutional insight of Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side , Warrick leads us to top levels of the Obama administration, where desperation to capture bin Laden led to tragic mistakes, and into the CIA, where the stinging defeat set off new clashes over spycraft and ignited a thirst for revenge.