American radical : inside the world of an undercover Muslim FBI agent
(2017)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
363.325/ELNOURY,T

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 363.325/ELNOURY,T Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2017
DESCRIPTION

xiv, 347 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781101986158 (hardcover), 1101986158 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Super high -- I am a Muslim -- No fear -- Dirty Arabs group -- Tamer Elnoury -- Take his temperature -- The bump -- Live amongst them to defeat them -- Uncle Ibrahim -- Gone fishing -- Apartment 23 -- The road trip -- The imam complex -- The Christian burial speech -- Best of the Mujahideen -- Pizza with terrorists -- The bridge -- Team Chiheb -- The responsible one -- The radicalizer -- Spitting in the eyes of God -- Operation Happy New Year -- High five -- The sixth pillar -- Eyes of Allah -- Stay true to Islam -- The end -- T-bags -- Epilogue : we're everyone

It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals are to take out as many Americans in as public and devastating a way as possible. It's a furious race against the clock for Tamer and his unit to stop them before they can implement their plans. Yet as new as this war still is, the techniques are as old as time: Listen, record, and prove terrorist intent --

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