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Nice thriller. The sad part was it was all real.

The common theme I found in most books on international terrorist networks based in Muslim-dominated conflict zones (I could have said words like 'jihadists' or worse 'Islamists,' but that's plain stupid, and I'm not gonna explain that. Figure it out.) is that the leaders of terrorist outlets like al-Qaeda and EIJ actually believed in what they were doing. You know. Bombing and killing foreign, not-so-foreign, and Muslim kuffar. But the main guy all these Osamas and Zawahiris and alikes took inspiration from was a practically non-violent but intellectually wild Egyptian 'Islamic' scholar Sayyid Qutb.

I don't know, man. I tried to read the intellectual ramblings of this Qutb guy, but he sounded so confused and boring. Yet these morons found a genius in his ideas. Well, he was a genius in the sense that he hit these practical terrorists where it hurt them.

That's why today I see all the academics writing long-ass essays explaining one simple idea so that another stupid man out there doesn't take them too seriously. Words have unintended but definite consequences.

It sounds more like a rant than a review. Sure. But trust me, I enjoyed feeling uncomfortable and annoyed and frustrated throughout the read. You might as well.

Anyway, there's a bunch of stuff on the beef between the CIA and the FBI in the book. Their usual crap. Who's a better patriot. Whatever that means. But for that, I liked the mini-series based on the book better. If I remember it correctly, it's on Prime.