Paul Cruickshank: 5 books

Bientôt porté à l'écran par Paul Greengrass (la saga Jason Bourne, Captain Phillips), le témoignage inédit et fascinant d'un agent double. Lors d'un séjour en prison, un jeune Danois, Morten Storm, cherche un nouveau sens à sa vie. Il se convertit à l'islam à l'âge de 21 ans et, guidé...

The true story of a jihadi convert seeking redemption in “a rollicking read and a rare insider’s account of Western spying in the age of al Qaeda” (The New York Times Book Review). Standing over six feet tall with flaming red hair, Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. But after a troubled...

Morten Storm siempre fue un yihadista poco convencional. Danés, pelirrojo y de metro ochenta y cinco de altura, pasó su adolescencia metiéndose en líos con su banda de moteros y entrando y saliendo de la cárcel. Hasta que un día leyó un libro sobre Mahoma que le cautivó y se embarcó en una...

As one of al-Qaeda’s most respected scholars and bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent working for MI6, he foiled numerous attacks on civilians, brushing with death so often that his handlers...

The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...