Robert Baer
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The explosive, never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA, revealing how spies blinded the US to the rise of Putin and Russia's dangerous future, from New York Times bestselling author and former CIA officer Robert Baer We think we know all the Cold War's greatest spy stories. The tales of America's greatest traitors have been told over and over. However, the biggest story of them all remains untold-until...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to New Delhi and racked up such an impressive list of accomplishments that he was eventually awarded the Career Intelligence Medal. But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his personal life was a brutal illustration of everything a spy is asked to sacrifice. Bob had few enduring non-work...
Series
Cult of the suicide bomber volume II
Pub. Date
[2014], c2006
Language
English
Description
Ex-CIA agent Robert Baer is on the intelligence trail to investigate how the West can stop the home-grown suicide bomber. He finds out why the cult of the suicide bomber has attracted Westerners, examining the backgrounds, motives and recruitment of the British perpetrators of the Mike's Place suicide bombing in Israel, and the homegrown 7/7 suicide bombers.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2007
Language
English
Description
In the final film of the Emmy nominated Cult of the Suicide Bomber series, ex-CIA agent Robert Baer shows us how countries and militaries defend against suicide bombing. He concludes that intelligence and defense alone cannot end suicide bombing; instead, the battle within Islam over interpretation of the concept of jihad is key. Baer, the real life basis for George Clooney's character in the Oscar winning Syriana movie, speaks to the hunters and...
5) Syriana
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies Across the globe, a disenfranchised...