America is reeling; Al-Qaeda has struck and hundreds are lifeless. The nation scrambles to reply, however the Pentagon has no plan for Afghanistan—the place Osama bin Laden masterminded the assault and is protected by the Taliban. As a substitute, the CIA steps ahead to spearhead the warfare. Eight CIA officers are dropped into the mountains of northern Afghanistan on October 17, 2001. They’re Workforce Alpha, an eclectic band of linguists, tribal specialists, and elite warriors: the primary People to function inside Taliban territory. Their covert mission is to trace down Al- Qaeda and cease the terrorists from infiltrating america once more.
First Casualty locations you with Workforce Alpha because the CIA rides into battle on horseback alongside the warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. In Washington, DC, few belief that the CIA males, the Inexperienced Berets, and the People’ outnumbered Afghan allies can prevail earlier than winter units in. On the bottom, Workforce Alpha is undeterred. The Taliban is routed however hatches a plot with Al-Qaeda to hit again. Lots of of suicidal fighters, many hiding weapons, faux a give up and are transported to Qala-i Jangi—the “Fort of Battle.”
Workforce Alpha’s Mike Spann, a former Marine, and David Tyson, a polyglot former Central Asian research educational, seize America’s preliminary alternative to extract intelligence from males skilled by bin Laden—amongst them a younger Muslim convert from California. The prisoners revolt and one CIA officer falls—the primary casualty in America’s longest warfare, which is able to final 20 years. The opposite CIA man shoots lifeless the Al-Qaeda jihadists attacking his comrade. To outlive, he should combat his approach out towards overwhelming odds.
Award-winning writer Toby Harnden gained unprecedented entry to all residing Workforce Alpha members and each degree of the CIA. Fantastically researched, First Casualty attracts on intensive interviews, secret paperwork, and deep reporting inside Afghanistan. As gripping as any journey novel, but intimate and profoundly transferring, it tells how America discovered a successful technique solely to desert it. Harnden reveals that the teachings of early victory and the haunting foretelling it contained—unreliable allies, ethnic rivalries, suicide assaults, and errant US bombs—had been ignored, tragically fueling a twenty-year battle.
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