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FBI operative Raymond W. Holcomb’s assignments took him across America, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Africa, and involved espionage, counter narcotics, Mafia takedowns, national security, Special Weapons and Tactics, and much more. He and his men captured the terrorists behind the 1993 assault on the World Trade Center, investigated the bombings of U.S. embassies, and pursued the killers of the seventeen American sailors who died in the 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole. After 9/11, he assisted in interrogating Yemeni prisoners who had information about the attack, which led to identifying al Qaeda and some of the hijackers. After the capture of one of 9/11’s most lethal masterminds, he went on a secret followup mission to Afghanistan. Holcomb’s memoir provides detailed information about the FBI that only a longtime bureau insider can reveal, such as prison conditions and interrogation techniques in Guantánamo and Afghanistan. He describes hunting down and grilling criminals of every ilk around the world, and then creating and leading the FBI’s elite cadre of counterterrorism agents who were at the helm of every major post-9/11 investigation, including the infiltration of homegrown conspiracies. Holcomb’s absorbing account gives anyone interested in the training and activities of the FBI’s elite tactical units a window into these highly effective organizations within the bureau.

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-The FBI is constantly evolving to meet changing threats to our nation. Ray Holcomb's career dramatically illustrates that point. From rural Georgia chasing bank robbers and fugitives in the 1980s, to the streets of New York chasing mobsters and drug lords in the 1990s, to remote outposts in the Middle East chasing terrorists after 9/11, he played a significant role in that evolution. I highly recommend this book to those wishing to know more about the FBI and the dedicated men and women who serve this nation so well.---Weldon L. Kennedy, deputy director (ret.), FBI--Weldon L. Kennedy

The FBI is constantly evolving to meet changing threats to our nation. Ray Holcomb's career dramatically illustrates that point. From rural Georgia chasing bank robbers and fugitives in the 1980s, to the streets of New York chasing mobsters and drug lords in the 1990s, to remote outposts in the Middle East chasing terrorists after 9/11, he played a significant role in that evolution. I highly recommend this book to those wishing to know more about the FBI and the dedicated men and women who serve this nation so well.

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Raymond W. Holcomb is a terrorism consultant for the federal government. He retired from the FBI in 2005 after twenty-two years of service. His most recent position was as assistant section chief of the Counterterrorism Operational Response Section, Counterterrorism Division, FBI headquarters. In 2002 he was a prosecution consultant on the trial team of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only planner of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to be convicted to date.

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