Blow The House Down, Robert Baer
Blow The House Down, Robert Baer
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Blow The House Down

Author: Robert Baer

Narrator: Paul Michael

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/06/2006

Categories: Fiction, Political


Synopsis

Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11.

Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though years of digging yield the name of a suspect—an Iranian math genius turned terrorist—the trail seems too cold to justify further effort. Then Max turns up a photograph of the man standing alongside Osama bin Laden and a mysterious westerner whose face has been cut out, feeding Max’s suspicion. When the first official to whom Max shows the photo winds up dead, the out-of-favor agent suddenly finds himself the target of dark forces within the intelligence community who are desperate to muzzle him.

Eluding a global surveillance net, Max—in the summer of 2001—begins tracking the spore of a complex conspiracy, meeting clandestinely with suicide bombers and Arab royalty and ultimately realizing the Iranian he’d sought for a decades-old crime is actually at the nexus of a terrifying plot.

Showing off dazzling tradecraft and an array of richly textured backdrops, and filled with real names and events, Blow the House Down deftly balances fact and possibility to become the first great thriller to spring from the war on terrorism.

About The Author

Robert Baer is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: Sleeping with the Devil, about the Saudi royal family and its relationship with the United States; and See No Evil, which recounts Baer’s years as a top CIA operative. See No Evil was the basis for the acclaimed film Syriana, which earned George Clooney an Oscar for his portrayal of Baer. Baer writes regularly for Time.com and has contributed to Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Middle East.Paul Michael is a stage, screen, and television actor of international status. His TV credits include leading roles in a number of British sitcoms. He has acted onstage in plays ranging from Macbeth to The Wizard of Oz.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on October 20, 2008

Baer may have a story to tell that is non-fiction, but the CIA will not clear the things he has to say. So he decided to sidestep the secrecy requirement and present his tale as fiction. It is all done with a nod and a wink. So take what he proffers as fiction as gospel. This is a very slickly writt......more

Goodreads review by Isis on September 21, 2009

I'm sticking this under 'memoir' even though it's ostensibly fiction, because having heard Baer speak (he lives about 40 miles from here) and read two of his nonfiction books, it's clear this book is only a slight fictional branching from his own experience. I don't know that he believes 9/11 was re......more

Goodreads review by Jim on January 13, 2018

This read was fascinating. The author, of course, is the real deal. Baer has been out there, gone behind the curtain and peaked beneath the circus tent. He's seen the rabbits, Lennie. Now this book is a rather complex read. It's espionage, after all. What, you expect it to be simple? There's lots of......more

Goodreads review by Mandi on December 01, 2020

Down Right Chilling Written by Mandi Scott Chestler on March 25th, 2010 Book Rating: 3/5 After reading so many of his non-fiction books, I was pleasantly surprised that former CIA operative Robert Baer could also write a gripping thriller. Thanks to Blow The House Down, now I begin to understand that a......more

Goodreads review by Karla on June 16, 2022

In classic spy novel style, this book is hard to follow. The main character has knowledge the reader does not and draws conclusions that seem to come out of thin air. We, the average citizen, are not supposed to be able to follow everything, or the spy wouldn’t be a very good spy!! All in all, it is......more