Nine Lives: My Time As MI6's Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda [Paperback]

Islamist, Scholar, Bomb-maker… Spy. Inside the life of an al-Qaeda double agent.

‘This captivating real-life spy-thriller is a must-read.’ Ali Soufan, former FBI Special Agent and author ofAnatomy of Terror

As one of al-Qaeda’s most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden.

As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda’s chemical weapons programme, he foiled attacks on civilians and saved countless lives, brushing with death so often that his handlers began to call him their spy with nine lives.

This is the story of how a young Muslim, determined to defend his faith, found himself fighting on the wrong side – and his fateful decision to work undercover for his sworn enemy. From the killing fields of Bosnia to the training camps of Afghanistan, from running money and equipment in Britain to dodging barrel bombs in Syria, we discover what life is like inside the global jihad, and what it will take to stop it once and for all.

‘A major contribution to the literature of espionage, and a rare book to say something original about contemporary jihadism.’Wall Street JournalAimen Deannow consults on security and counter-terrorism for governments and the private sector with a focus on counter-terrorist finance.

Paul Cruickshankis CNN’s Terrorism Analyst and Editor-in-Chief ofCTC Sentinel, the flagship publication of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.Tim Listeris a British producer and reporter who has covered international news for the BBC and CNN for more than thirty years. They wrote the international bestsellerAgent Stormwith Morten Storm.‘Nerve-shredding.’‘It is rare that Western secret services place an agent within an organisation such as al-Qaida… It is unprecedented that any such indilC<