Paul Cruickshank

Ateistista jihadistiksi ja jihadistista salaiseksi agentiksi. Tosielämän vakoojatarina tanskalaisnuoresta, joka päätyi jihadistiksi ja edelleen osaksi hengenvaarallista terroristijahtia CIA:n agenttina. Morten Storm on ailahtelevainen nuori, jonka elämä saa suunnan hänen löytäessään kirjan profeetta Muhammedista. Storm kääntyy islamiin ja radikalisoituu toden teolla. Kymmenen jihadistivuoden jälkeen hän sanoutuu irti extremismistä ja alkaa sovituksen elkeenä työskennellä läntisten tiedustelupalveluiden salaisena agenttina. Peiteroolissaan Storm joutuu räjähdysherkkiin tilanteisiin joukkomurhia suunnittelevien fanaattisten miesten keskuudessa. Hän väistelee lennokki-iskuja al-Qaidan johtajien kanssa ja järjestää hunaja-ansoja entisille aateveljilleen. Rajuissa muistelmissa maistuvat veri, hiekka ja lasinsirut, kun Storm kysyy, onko radikalisoituminen estettävissä. Morten Storm on tanskalainen entinen islamistiterroristi, joka toimi kaksoisagenttina Yhdysvaltojen, Britannian ja Tanskan tiedustelupalveluille. Paul Cruickshank on CNN:n terrorismiasiantuntija ja tutkija. Tim Lister on CNN:n ja BBC:n toimittaja, joka on työskennellyt Lähi-idässä.

As one of al-Qaeda’s most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda’s chemical weapons programme, he foiled attacks on civilians and saved countless lives, brushing with death so often that his handlers began to call him their spy with nine lives. This is the story of how a young Muslim, determined to defend his faith, found himself fighting on the wrong side – and his fateful decision to work undercover for his sworn enemy. From the killing fields of Bosnia to the training camps of Afghanistan, from running money and equipment in Britain to dodging barrel bombs in Syria, we discover what life is like inside the global jihad, and what it will take to stop it once and for all.

Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. But after a decade of jihadi life, he not only repudiated extremism but, in a quest for atonement, became a double agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence. Agent Storm takes readers inside the jihadist world like never before, showing the daily life of zealous men set on mass murder, from dodging drones with al Qaeda leaders in the Arabian desert to training in extremist gyms in Britain and performing supply drops in Kenya. The book also provides a tantalizing look at his dangerous life undercover, as Storm traveled the world for missions targeting its most dangerous terrorists, and into the most powerful spy agencies: their tradecraft, rivalries, and late-night carousing, as well as their ruthless use of a beautiful blonde in an ambitious honey trap. Agent Storm is a captivating, utterly unique, real-life espionage tale.

He was the Western convert who would plunge deep inside al-Qaeda. He named his first son Osama after 9/11 and became a Jihadist. But then - after a sudden loss of faith - Morten Storm made a life-changing decision. He became a double agent and joined the CIA, MI6 and MI5.Filled with hair-raising close calls and deception, Storm's story builds to the climactic finale when he must betray his friend and mentor al-Awlaki - al-Qaeda's biggest threat to the West. Storm is trusted to find al-Awlaki a wife from Europe. She becomes the bait for a possible American drone strike.