Recounting his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East, the author paints a picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides evidence about how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA's efforts to root out the world's deadliest terrorists.
Robert Baer, a case officer in the Directorate of Operations for the CIA from 1976 to 1997, spent much of his career in Saudi Arabia. This is his insider's account of the Saudis and their oil at a time when the Wahhabi movement there threatens the House of Saud and the oil supply to the West.