Agent Storm

En forårsdag i 2010 mødes tre mænd i en suite på Hotel Crowne Plaza ved indkøbscentret Field’s på Amager, den ene med en attachémappe lænket til håndleddet. Kort efter forlader en stor, rødhåret konvertit hotellet og tager hjem til sin mor i Korsør, 250.000 dollars rigere. Det er CIA’s tak for hjælpen til en hemmelig dansk meddeler i al-Qaida, der netop har arrangeret et ægteskab mellem den farligste mand på Den Arabiske Halvø og en lokkedue i form af en uvidende 32-årig kroatisk blondine.MORTEN STORM voksede op i Korsør i 1980’erne. Med vold i hjemmet, nederlag i skolen, boksning i fritiden og en forudsigelig flirt med rockerklubben Bandidos. Men 21 år gammel konverterede vildbassen fra Vestsjælland til islam og stak af fra det hele. Han tog til England, fandt ind i kredsen omkring en berygtet hadprædikant og navngav sin førstefødte søn Osama, inden han tog på koranskole i Yemen og kom i studiegruppe hos terrorimamen Anwar al-Awlaki.For en ægte jihadist ville det have været en drøm, der gik i opfyldelse. Men Morten Storm var ikke ægte. Undervejs havde han mistet troen og var begyndt at samarbejde med PET, det britiske efterretningsvæsen og CIA. Blandt andet om drabet på mentoren Awlaki.AGENT STORM er en sandfærdig historie om en af de mærkværdigste efterretningsoperationer i den usynlige kamp mod terror, fortalt af en ung dansker, der spillede en hovedrolle efter et dødsensfarligt dobbeltliv i al-Qaida gennem fem år. Det er en insider-beretning fra den islamistiske underverden. Og et forbløffende indblik i de vestlige efterretningstjenesters metoder.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Agent Storm: My Life Inside al-Qaeda by Morten Storm with Tim Lister and Paul Cruckshanks. Read by Neil Shah.He was the Western convert who would plunge deep inside al-Qaeda. He named his first son Osama after 9/11 and became a Jihadist. But then - after a sudden loss of faith - Morten Storm made a life-changing decision. He became a double agent and joined the CIA, MI6 and MI5.Filled with hair-raising close calls and deception, Storm's story builds to the climactic finale when he must betray his friend and mentor al-Awlaki - al-Qaeda's biggest threat to the West. Storm is trusted to find al-Awlaki a wife from Europe. She becomes the bait for a possible American drone strike.

Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. But after a decade of jihadi life, he not only repudiated extremism but, in a quest for atonement, became a double agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence. Agent Storm takes readers inside the jihadist world like never before, showing the daily life of zealous men set on mass murder, from dodging drones with al Qaeda leaders in the Arabian desert to training in extremist gyms in Britain and performing supply drops in Kenya. The book also provides a tantalizing look at his dangerous life undercover, as Storm traveled the world for missions targeting its most dangerous terrorists, and into the most powerful spy agencies: their tradecraft, rivalries, and late-night carousing, as well as their ruthless use of a beautiful blonde in an ambitious honey trap. Agent Storm is a captivating, utterly unique, real-life espionage tale.

Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. But after a decade of jihadi life, he not only repudiated extremism but, in a quest for atonement, became a double agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence. Agent Storm takes readers inside the jihadist world like never before, showing the daily life of zealous men set on mass murder, from dodging drones with al Qaeda leaders in the Arabian desert to training in extremist gyms in Britain and performing supply drops in Kenya. The book also provides a tantalizing look at his dangerous life undercover, as Storm traveled the world for missions targeting its most dangerous terrorists, and into the most powerful spy agencies: their tradecraft, rivalries, and late-night carousing, as well as their ruthless use of a beautiful blonde in an ambitious honey trap. Agent Storm is a captivating, utterly unique, real-life espionage tale.