The Spymaster of Baghdad by Margaret Coker
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The Spymaster of Baghdad
- The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell That Turned the Tide Against ISIS
- By: Margaret Coker
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
Publisher’s Summary
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The Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that infiltrated the Islamic State. More so than that of any foreign power, the information they gathered turned the tide against the insurgency, paving the way to the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019.
Against the backdrop of the most brutal conflict of recent decades, we chart the spymaster’s struggle to develop the unit from scratch in challenging circumstances after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, we follow the fraught relationship of two of his agents, the Sudani brothers – one undercover in ISIS for 16 long months, the other his handler – and we track a disillusioned scientist as she turns bomb-maker, threatening the lives of thousands.
With unprecedented access to characters on all sides, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Margaret Coker challenges the conventional view that Western coalition forces defeated ISIS and reveals a story of unlikely heroes, unbelievable courage and good old-fashioned spycraft.
©2021 Margaret Coker (P)2021 Penguin Audio
Styff
Slow start, great read
It starts a little slowly but it picks up steam and is a fantastic story by the end after all of the separate threads are finally woven together.
Jamie Ericson
Slow story, dull performance
Really slow story, not engaging and the narration is dull and unengaging. I didn’t know it was possible to make espionage boring