Morning Spy, Evening Spy

An Afghan resistance fighter of the 1980s, once on the CIA payroll, has come back to haunt the Agency. Kareem has become an enemy working with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He has arranged the murder of an American CIA agent in Pakistan, which may compromise an intricate, long-planned CIA operation to capture Osama bin Laden. CIA officer, Paul Patterson, who had run Kareem as an agent during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, sets out to track him down. Patterson navigates a shadow land of intrigue in England, Africa, the Middle East, and the U.S., where truth and lies seem to merge. Meanwhile, Muhammad Atta and the other conspirators prepare their attack on the World Trade Centre. Seeking Kareem, Patterson comes closer and closer to Atta. The climax is a stunning reversal of everything that Patterson's quest has led him to expect. Peopled with dedicated operatives trying to protect Americans from Islamic terrorism, rival Washington bureaucrats jockeying for information and position, old CIA hands who operate by their own set of rules, African rebels, diplomats, and assassins, this thriller, inspired in part by The 9/11 Report, captures the world of the CIA and the terrorists with the intensity John le Carre brought to the Cold War.