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

In December 2009, several the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret foundation in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double-agent who infiltrated the top rates of al-Qaeda. For months, he previously sent shocking revelations in the about The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA terrorist network and today promised to help the CIA assassinate Osama bin Laden’s top deputy. Rather, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a thirty-pound bomb strapped to his upper body, instantly eliminating seven CIA operatives, the agency’s most severe loss of lifestyle in decades.

In The Triple Agent, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick will take us deep inside the CIA’s secret battle against al-Qaeda, a war that pits robotic planes and laser-guided missiles against a cunning foe intent on unleashing carnage in American cities. Flitting precariously between the two edges was Balawi, a man with amazing gifts who managed to win the confidence of hardened terrorists aswell as veteran spymasters. Along with his breathtaking accounts from inside al-Qaeda’s lair, Balawi appeared poised to become America’s ideal double-agent in half a century-but he had not been in any way what he seemed. Combining the effective momentum of Dark Hawk Down with the institutional insight of Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side, Warrick takes the readers on the harrowing journey from the slums of Amman to the internal chambers of the Light House within an untold true tale of miscalculation, deception, and revenge.