The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA

The story is well told and captures the reader. We have read the newspaper accounts of the story, but this book fleshes out the real people involved on all three sides of the story. The author pulls together the facts to show us what all three sides were looking for and the human toll it took. The narrator does a fine job. Good read overall.

I've read and researched every book written on intelligence in the middle east and this one of the best on the topic. This is a story which everyone needs to read, to understand the sacrifices and tough decisions that our intelligence agents make everyday.

Joby Warrick in The Triple Agent has provided readers with an exciting, informative, and thought provoking glimpse inside the CIA and the disaster at Camp Chapman. Throughout the book, Warrick simply tells the story – unapologetically and journalistically. The reader is free to come to conclusions at will. In the process of telling this story, the reader is thoroughly introduced to the bomber and the victims he took with him. In places Warrick takes your breath away. In others, details he has uncovered jar the reader awake. At times, the narrative brings tears and a serious appreciation for the men and women of the CIA who sacrifice so much in the service they perform to the nation. The book is worth the price of admission for nothing else than the subplot involving Elizabeth Hanson and Jennifer Matthews. Just amazing. This is one page turner. The reading of Sunil Madlhotra is wonderful. Don’t miss it.

A CIA analyst, with minimal field training, is put in charge of the main CIA base in Afghanistan. The CIA agent, an ambitious woman and an evangelical christian, decides to put her faith in the valued double agent He is not searched and she makes sure that all the intelligence agents are present to greet him, to show him respect.

What follows is the worst CIA failure in history and a great read.

This was a better than average, but not a great listen. The basic premise was intriguing but the story failed to deliver in the details. Overall though, I'm glad I bought the book.

Triple Agent sort of amazed me with the details obtained by the writer. I found myself wondering how he got all this access and information.

Malhorta seemed to get way to much enjoyment out of saying the word's 'Pakistan' and 'Afghanistan' in an unusual way.

It can be a little hard keeping characters straight in an audio presentation--especially if there are a lot of them and when they have foreign names. But the author did a pretty good job of providing little clues to keep the listener on track. I love audio books, in general, and believe a good reader, as this book had, adds to the understanding of the text. What isn't easy to do, of course, is go back and reread a paragraph or page.

Although this was a true-life story, it was paced like a fictional thriller, with the author skillfully building tension and bringing out aspects of the characters that made them engaging people, whose fates the listener cared about. Amazingly, the tension was sustained, despite knowing the episode's outcome. I'd compare it, in its exploration of the ambiguous realities of Afghanistan and what Americans face there, to Frederick Forsyth's The Afghan (an audiobook I've listened to twice).

The reader did an excellent job of text interpretation and character differentiation.

I read some 50 books in 2012--including several prize-winners--and listened on audio to at least a dozen more. This was one of my half-dozen favorites. From thousands of miles away, it can be easy to put Iraq and Afghanistan out of our minds; this book made the real sacrifices of real people very, very painfully present.

A Great book for anyone interested in espionage, the cia, the nsa or any of the like but not only for just them...This is a great book for anyone who enjoyed a well paced book with a fascinating subject matter wrapped up with a great, attention keeping narration. Its well worth a credit!

CIA messed up even after 911

It read like a thriller: John le Carre novel or a Daniel Silva novel

The CIA was incredibly naive and the making of a terrorist is complex and simple in its equation

I was driving across the country for a vacation and I didn't want to stop because I was enjoying the book so much. Very easy to listen to and is a page turner.

I could hardly put it down. No problem with the unfamiliar names - look up one or two online if you need to. Reads like a top thriller novel, except for the tragic end.