Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda The Story of the CIA Commander in Afghanistan

This is a book you are not allowed to read by the CIA, which has pulled out all the stops to keep these secrets: censorship, misinformation, radio silence, intimidation and a legal conflict. The most decorated CIA commander tells about his relentless pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. His story does not always match the official version...
Because of his unique combination of secret knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen is a representative of the new counterterrorism. When he was sent to Afghanistan, he made "destroy the enemy" his job description.
As CIA commander, he coordinated the fight against the Taliban around Kabul and the advance on Tora Bora. Berntsen not only led dozens of teams of CIA and Special Forces, he also recruited 2,000 Afghan fighters to help hunt bin Laden.
Berntsen describes his flights in flimsy helicopters over the immense peaks of Afghanistan, his heated negotiations with the generals of the Northern Alliance and his bribing of Afghan warlords and Taliban traitors with millions of dollars.
Finally, Berntsen dwells extensively on the entrapment of bin Laden in Tora Bora - and the response to his plea to Washington to block the al-Qaeda leader's last escape route.
Jawbreaker is an unsettling eye-opener and an adrenaline rush: the book races from CIA headquarters to embassies and guerrilla strongholds. Berntsen shows what can be done to defeat a new kind of enemy.