Nine Lives: My Time as the West’s Top Spy inside al-Qaeda
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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 himself.
As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda’s chemical weapons program, 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.
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Aimen Dean now consults on security and counterterrorism for governments and the private sector with a focus on counterterrorist finance.
Tim Lister is a British producer and reporter who has covered international news for the BBC and CNN for more than thirty years.
Paul Cruickshank is CNN’s Terrorism Analyst and editor-in-chief of CTC Sentinel, the flagship publication of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. They wrote the international bestseller Agent Storm with Morten Storm.
Assaf Cohen is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. He has appeared in various plays, short films, and television shows. He grew up in Palo Alto and attended UC Berkeley where he earned a bachelor’s degree in integrative biology. He continued his classical training by earning a master of fine arts in acting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University under the instruction of legendary acting instructor William Esper.
