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The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Hardcover – March 26, 2012

by Terry McDermott (Author), Josh Meyer (Author)
The definitive account of the decade-long pursuit and capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the terrorist mastermind of 9/11.

Only minutes after United 175 plowed into the World Trade Center's South Tower, people in positions of power correctly suspected who was behind the assault: Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. But it would be 18 months after September 11 before investigators would capture the actual mastermind of the attacks, the man behind bin Laden himself.

That monster is the man who got his hands dirty while Osama fled; the man who was responsible for setting up Al Qaeda's global networks, who personally identified and trained its terrorists, and who personally flew bomb parts on commercial airlines to test their invisibility. That man withstood waterboarding and years of other intense interrogations, not only denying Osama's whereabouts but making a literal game of the proceedings, after leading his pursuers across the globe and back. That man is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and he is still, to this day, the most significant Al Qaeda terrorist in captivity.

In The Hunt for KSM, Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer go deep inside the US government's dogged but flawed pursuit of this elusive and dangerous man. One pair of agents chased him through countless false leads and narrow escapes for five years before 9/11. And now, drawing on a decade of investigative reporting and unprecedented access to hundreds of key sources, many of whom have never spoken publicly -- as well as jihadis and members of KSM's family and support network -- this is a heart-pounding trip inside the dangerous, classified world of counterterrorism and espionage.
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  1. Print length
    368 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Little, Brown and Company
  4. Publication date
    March 26, 2012
  5. Dimensions
    6.5 x 1.25 x 9.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0316186597
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0316186599
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Superlative storytelling and crackling reportage define a pulse-pounding narrative tracing the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. ... A surprising, sobering look at one of the deadliest terror networks in history, and the American spy agencies charged with bringing it down.

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Josh Meyer is the former chief terrorism reporter for The Los Angeles Times and has reported on international terrorism for more than a decade­. The "Inside Al Qaeda" series he worked on was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and he has twice been part of teams that have won the Pulitzer Prize for  reporting. Meyer is also a screenwriter and television producer, who co-created (with Michael Connelly), wrote and produced the network TV crime drama Level 9. He currently is on the faculty of the Medill School of Journalism, where he is director of education and outreach for the school's groundbreaking National Security Journalism Initiative based in Washington, D.C.

Terry McDermott is the author of Perfect Soldiers (HarperCollins, 2005), and 101 Theory Drive (Pantheon, 2010). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Wilson Quarterly, Columbia Journalism Review, the Los Angeles Times Magazine and Pacific Magazine. McDermott worked at eight newspapers for more than thirty years, most recently for ten years at The Los Angeles Times, where he was a national correspondent.

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    JOSH MEYER left the Los Angeles Times in early 2010 after being on staff for 20 years to become director of education and outreach for the new Medill National Security Journalism Initiative. Based in Washington, D.C., the initiative aims to find the best ways to do, and to teach, all kinds of national security journalism in this changing media environment—including covering terrorism, war, nuclear proliferation, intelligence and law enforcement reform.

    He is also co-author of "The Hunt for KSM: The Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," published March 26, 2012.

    At The Times, Josh covered a wide range of issues—including government, politics and law enforcement. He focused on terrorism and related national security issues from 2000 until 2010, most of that time in the paper’s Washington bureau. He has won or shared in numerous local, state and national awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes awarded to reporting teams he was on.

    He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Michael, a Washington Post reporter. For fun, he also routinely invites public embarrassment by singing and playing lead guitar in a rock/blues band he co-founded, Suspicious Package.

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