商品簡介
FBI operative Raymond Holcomb's assignments took him across America, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Africa, and involved espionage, counter-narcotics, Mafia takedowns, national security, special weapons and tactics (SWAT), and much more. He and his men captured the terrorists behind the 1993 assault on the World Trade Center, investigated the bombings of U.S. embassies, and pursued the killers of the seventeen American sailors who died in the 2000 suicide attack on the USS Co/e. After 9/11 he assisted in interrogating Yemeni prisoners who had information about the attack, which led to the identification of al Qaeda as the responsible party and to the discovery of the identities of some of the hijackers. After the capture of Ramzi bin al-Sheib, one of 9/11's most lethal masterminds, Holcomb went on a secret follow-up mission to Afghanistan to gain access to the prisoner and learn about al Qaeda's future plans.
Holcomb's memoir provides detailed information about the FBI that only a longtime bureau insider can reveal, such as prison conditions and interrogation techniques in Guantanamo and Afghanistan. He describes hunting down and interrogating criminals of every ilk around the world and then creating and leading the FBI's elite cadre of counterterrorism agents who were at the forefront of every major post-9/11 investigation, including the infiltration of homegrown conspiracies. Holcomb's absorbing account provides anyone interested in the training and activities of the FBI's elite tactical units a window into these highly effective organizations.
作者簡介
Retired from the FBI after twenty-two years of service, Raymond W. Holcomb is a counterterrorism consultant for the federal government. His most recent position was as assistant section chief of the Counterterrorism Operational Response Section, Counterterrorism Division, FBI Headquarters. In 2002 he was a prosecution consultant during the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only planner of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to be convicted to date. He lives in Arlington. Virginia.
Lillian S. Weiss is a practicing attorney and a freelance writer, speechwriter, and editorial consultant. She lives in Voorhees, New Jersey.
