Jawbreaker The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda

Jawbreaker The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda A personal account by the CIA's key field commander paperback By Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo wear on cover Copyright 2005 ISBN 0-307-35106-8 315 pages The Book the CIA Doesn’t Want You to Read — Gary Berntsen, the CIA’s key commander coordinating the fight against the Taliban forces around Kabul, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit—and cornering—of Osama bin Laden, and the reason the terrorist leader escaped American retribution. As disturbingly eye-opening as it is adrenaline-charged, Jawbreaker races from CIA war rooms to diplomatic offices to mountaintop redoubts to paint a vivid portrait of a new kind of warfare, showing what can and should be done to deal a death blow to freedom’s enemies.