Tim Lister Books

Morten Storm was an unlikely Jihadist. A 6'1" red-haired Dane, he spent his teens with a biker gang or in jail. After converting to Islam, he transformed from a militant madrassa in Yemen to a close friendship with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born cleric and a significant threat to the West. Storm's journey took another dramatic turn when he lost his faith and was recruited by the CIA, MI6, and MI5, becoming a double agent with the mission to take down al-Awlaki. This memoir recounts his quest for purpose within a community of believers before rejecting their extremist ideology. For five years, he lived undercover, completing high-profile missions and thwarting multiple terrorist attacks while leading intelligence services to dangerous al-Qaeda operatives, all while knowing his life was at risk. The narrative provides an unprecedented look into the Jihadist world, from dodging drones with al-Qaeda leaders to Jihadist gyms in Birmingham. It also reveals insights into powerful spy agencies, their tradecraft, and the use of a beautiful blonde in a honey trap. Filled with close calls, coded messages, and chilling duplicity, this captivating real-life thriller offers a unique perspective on a complex and dangerous world.

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All of your projects and programs make up your portfolio . But how much time do you actually spend on your projects, and how much time do you spend responding to emergencies? This book will introduce you to different ways of ordering all of the projects you are working on now, and help you figure out how to staff those projects-even when you've run out of project teams to do the work. Once you learn to manage your portfolio better, you'll avoid emergency "firedrills". The trick is adopting lean and agile approaches to projects, whether they are software projects, projects that include hardware, or projects that depend on chunks of functionality from other suppliers. You may be accustomed to spending time in meetings where you still don't have the data you need to evaluate your projects. Here, with a few measures, you'll be able to quickly evaluate each project and come to a decision quickly. You'll learn how to define your team's, group's, or department's mission with none of the buzzwords that normally accompany a mission statement. Armed with the work and the mission, you can make those decisions that define the true leaders in the organization.

orten 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 world’s 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.