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First In by GARY SCHROEN (2005, Hardcover) 
First In by GARY SCHROEN (2005, Hardcover)

 
First In by GARY SCHROEN (2005, Hardcover)

Author: GARY SCHROEN
Publisher: Presidio Pr
Publication Date: 2005-05-31
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0891418725
ISBN-13: 9780891418726
Product ID: EPID43754074
Description: A former CIA officer recounts his last, post-911, assignment: infiltrate behind enemy lines in Afghanistan and lay the groundwork for the invasion to come. Gary Schoen tells how he established contact with the Northern Alliance, and conv...
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A former CIA officer recounts his last, post-911, assignment: infiltrate behind enemy lines in Afghanistan and lay the groundwork for the invasion to come. Gary Schoen tells how he established contact with the Northern Alliance, and conveys his efforts to navigate between the bureaucracy back in Washington and the (perhaps) medieval ways of the Afghan warlords.

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Publication Date:2005-05-31

Size
Length:379 pages
Height:9.3 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:24.0 oz

Publisher's Note
While America held its breath in the days immediately following 9/11, a small but determined group of CIA agents covertly began to change history. This is the riveting first-person account of the treacherous top-secret mission inside Afghanistan to set the stage for the defeat of the Taliban and launch the war on terror.

Gary Schroen was hardly expecting to take on such a job. Like the veteran officer in countless cop movies, he was planning for retirement when disaster struck. After 9/11, at age fifty-nine, he was drafted back for his most dangerous assignment: to lead a handpicked team of operatives deep into Afghan territory and prepare the way for an American assault.

Comprised of seven agents, experts in fields ranging from communications to medicine to weaponry, the group called “Jawbreaker” found itself in hostile terrain while identifying targets for U.S. bombs and coordinating U.S. forces with the Northern Alliance (NA), the organized opposition to the Taliban dictatorship.

Jawbreaker struggled to maintain coherence within the NA, which had been deprived of its charismatic leader Ahmad Shah Masood when he was murdered on September 9 by an al-Qa’ida bomb concealed in a camera. The success of Schroen and his group would mean the collapse of the Taliban, the disruption of al-Qa’ida, and the end of Afghanistan as a sanctuary for terrorists. Impeding Jawbreaker’s progress was the absence of a Taliban infrastructure that could be targeted, a Pakistani government eager to interfere, and a “rash and reckless” U.S. government, that did not know the most effective way to attack.

As thrilling as any novel, First In is a uniquely intimate look at a mission that began the U.S. retaliation against terrorism–and reclaimed the country of Afghanistan for its people.

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