Left of Boom: How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (861 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 125008136X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was in Afghanistan for the 2010 Afghan Surge, and in Kandahar during Operation Neptune Spear, which resulted in the death of Usama bin Ladin. He lives in Washington, DC.RALPH PEZZULLO is the bestselling author of Jawbreaker, Inside SEAL Team Six and others.. His final assignment was with the top secret task force involved with instigating the Syrian civil war. DOUGLAS LAUX is a
What's The Point? Alan E Rivoir Initial thought: "What's The Point?". Kind of comical for a secret agent to publish a book and when the reader goes to open it, all they find are black lines interrupting incoherent sentences and paragraphs! Neat gimmick but does not make for good reading. Again, what's the point? I want my money back. If you want to see a REAL book discussing the actions of Top Secret personnel and units without any pesky redactionsI suggest checking out "Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command". Terrific book.. "Great Read!" according to Dave Edmiston. I heard this author interviewed on the Adam Carolla podcast and knew I had to read his story. This is his account of joining the CIA and working as a field operative in Afghanistan and Syria. His stories are fascinating and his writing keeps the pages turning.Laux does a great job of telling the stories he believes need to be told. Strangely enough, his style was to just try to tell EVERYTHING without holding back and then let the folks in Washington decide what should and shouldn't be redacted. The results were fascinating and even more informative than I expected. In some cases you could read bet. Worth the read ThankYouForYourSrrvice Let me start by saying. I grew up near Doug and know his parents well. Some errors I noted: He did go to Indiana University (not University of Indiana as started in the bookweird mistake for an IU grad to make!), and the local school system is not as close to abysmal as he makes it out to be.Some things I know to be correct: he left a very good paying job he started after college to work for a "government contractor" in DC and traveling the world. After that his parents hardly heard from him or knew where he was for many years. Often they thought he was in Hawaii. Beyond that I can't verify too muc
The explosive New York Times bestseller!On September 11, 2001, Doug Laux was a freshman in college, on the path to becoming a doctor. Frustrated by bureaucratic red tape, a widespread lack of knowledge of the local customs and culture and an attitude of complacency that hindered his ability to combat the local Taliban, Doug confounded his peers by dressing like a native and mastering the local dialect, making contact and building sources within several deadly terrorist networks. Dropped into a remote region of Afghanistan, he received his baptism by fire. His new approach resulted in unprecedented successes, including uncovering the largest IED network in the world, responsible for killing hundreds of US soldiers. Meanwhile, Doug had to keep up false pretenses with his family, girlfriend and friends--nobody could know what he did for a living--and deal with the emotional turbulence of constantly living a lie. Through persistence and hard work he was fast-tracked to a clandestine operations position overseas. But with the fall of the Twin Towers came a turning point in his life. After graduating he joined the Cent
It’s a fascinating and engaging look inside the fast-paced and dangerous daily workings of today’s CIA." - Publishers Weekly"Left of Boom is a riveting personal story of how a young CIA operative, attached to the National Clandestine Service (NCS) and fresh out of college, managed to actually penetrate into the Talban and Al-Qaeda. Laux's narrative offers new insights, bludgeoned as they were by agency censors, into how the CIA goes about the business of war zone espionage." - NBC News"Every bit as riveting and even more spellbinding than the best the thriller genre has to offer. Mr. Laux was thousands of miles from Washington, a grunt in a secret war." - New York Times"The first glimpse of a younger generation of CIA spies whose careers have been defined by the War on Terror. "Mr. In addition to providing a superb glimpse at the minutia involved in being a CIA case officer, Left of Boom also does a