{"product_id":"blow-the-house-down-paperback-1","title":"Blow the House Down - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Baer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9\/11. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVeteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though years of digging yield the name of a suspect--an Iranian math genius turned terrorist--the trail seems too cold to justify further effort. Then Max turns up a photograph of the man standing alongside Osama bin Laden and a mysterious westerner whose face has been cut out, feeding Max's suspicion. When the first official to whom Max shows the photo winds up dead, the out-of-favor agent suddenly finds himself the target of dark forces within the intelligence community who are desperate to muzzle him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEluding a global surveillance net, Max--in the summer of 2001--begins tracking the spore of a complex conspiracy, meeting clandestinely with suicide bombers and Arab royalty and ultimately realizing the Iranian he'd sought for a decades-old crime is actually at the nexus of a terrifying plot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShowing off dazzling tradecraft and an array of richly textured backdrops, and filled with real names and events, \u003ci\u003eBlow the House Down\u003c\/i\u003e deftly balances fact and possibility to become the first great thriller to spring from the war on terrorism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso available as a Random House AudioBook and an eBook\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Baer spent twenty years running agents from inside the CIA's Directorate of Operations, operating against Hizballah, Al-Qaeda, and other terrorist organizations, and \"was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East\" (Seymour M. Hersh, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e). His memoir \u003ci\u003eSee No Evil\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and inspired the movie Syriana starring George Clooney. He lives in Colorado.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44208114565255,"sku":"9781400098361","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/wIJLoRXZ_J9781400098361.webp?v=1773669023","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/blow-the-house-down-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}