About this title: Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11. Showing off dazzling tradecraft and an array of richly textured backdrops, and filled with real names and events, this work deftly balances fact and possibility to become a great thriller based on the war on terrorism.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Date Published: 05/2006
ISBN-13:9781400098354ISBN:1400098351
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Date Published: 05/2006
ISBN-13:9781400098354ISBN:1400098351
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 298 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Date Published: 05/2006
ISBN-13:9781400098354ISBN:1400098351
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 298 p. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781400098354ISBN:1400098351
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781400098354ISBN:1400098351
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"This novel is chilling. Written by Robert Baer a former CIA Chief in the Middle East and which the movie Syriana was based on writes a very plausible story of how 911 occured."
"I'm sticking this under 'memoir' even though it's ostensibly fiction, because having heard Baer speak (he lives about 40 miles from here) and read two of his nonfiction books, it's clear this book is only a slight fictional branching from his own experience. I don't know that he believes 9/11 was really precipitated for these reasons - but I bet that he thinks there's a strong possibility it did.
Baer's background as a CIA operative infuses his story with details that ring true because they are true; in fact, it's kind of weird to see familiar names of real people (e.g. the main character mentions sending a story off to Danny Pearl) rather than the usual fictionalized versions. He writes well, in a simple and straightforward style that is transparently easy to read (which I applaud). On the other hand, as a story, it's...kind of lacking, I guess. The groundwork is set into place with painstaking slowness, and then it all comes together in a rush of revelation at the end. I enjoyed it, in general. But I would have liked to have seen the craft of a writer at work as well as that of a spy."
"As a procedural espionage thriller, it starts out well. Baer brings his knowledge about the intelligence community. He also brings in an interesting twist on history/recent events by interjecting real people into the story. The main character also is a little bit more developed/flawed than the typical Jack Bauer one dimensional hero.
But this definetly is not the best spy novel I have read. It is often slow and for much of it nothing happens. There were a few scenes with some tension. This would be okay if he was going for realism, but the book has cliches such as the main character being the only one who knows but he is suspended and has to do it on his own.
Also realism suffers as the plot is overly complicated and far fetched. The idea of a massive conspiracy is at time confusing or relies too much on the idea of a single group of masterminds that could plan everything."
"The author's background makes this well-written, face-paced book far more chilling than those written by writers who come from the life outside intelligence agencies. Definitely one for the conspiracy theorists."
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