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 FREDERICK
HARRISON served in CIA's Senior Intelligence
Service, as well as in the Office of Naval
Intelligence and National Security Agency. He
lives in the Washington D.C. area where he writes
and consults on intelligence sharing matters.
Author Frederick Harrison brings over 30 years of
experience into a realistic yarn that could be
happening today (or tomorrow)...His portrayal of the
relationships between federal, state, local, and
international law enforcement and intelligence
organizations, based on this experience, adds
extraordinary realism to an already believable and
exciting plot...A highly readable book, both
informative and entertaining.
--Naval
Intelligence Professionals Quarterly
The busy intelligence officer who "does not have
time to read novels" should take the time to read
this one...
--RADM Thomas Brooks, USN Ret.
Former Director of Naval Intelligence
Without resorting to caricature, and with a
comprehension of jihad and strategy that's alarming
in its real-world implication, the author logically
implements a plotline that underscores how easy it
would be to pull-off another 9/11 terror strike. At
the same time, Harrison's depiction of coordination
efforts---and frequent animosity--among the White
House, CIA, FBI, Department of Homeland Security,
police and the National Guard will inspire awe-
--Kirkus
Discoveries |
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A
Story Collection by Frederick Harrison
Hiding in
Theaters
And Other
Stories
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The short story is a snapshot of
its author’s perception of the
world in which he or she is
living, its denizens and events
illustrating (not always
intentionally) the dominant
features of the times. F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s many stories,
for example, illuminated the
hedonism of the
nineteen-twenties, while those
of master spy storyteller, Eric
Ambler, evoked the clouds
gathering over Europe in the
nineteen-thirties. Frederick
Harrison’s focal point is the
second decade of the
twenty-first century, his
stories sometimes serious,
sometimes not. The
Universal Toka-Woka, for example, involves
a device for delivering fast
food over the Internet; the #TheJesusApp
chronicles the adventures of
three young geeks seeking to
gain fame and fortune channeling
their inner Zuckerberg.
A
Distant Date Certain, however,
tells what happens when the
brilliant success of NASA’s
interstellar exploration program
reveals more than we really want
to know. There are eight short
stories in the collection, the
title novella being sort of a
bonus. It is the story of a
man and woman who meet in a
movie theater, while hiding from
life, and are reborn. |
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November
Station
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Amid increasing criticism on
Capitol Hill and expanding
protest by Say No To Drones, the
CIA extends its Predator drone
operations into west Africa,
reclaiming a disused airfield
outside the city of Mopti in
central Mali that it designates
November Station. Intelligence
sources indicate that Islamist
Karim Tounkara, whose invading
forces had overrun almost the
entire northern portion of the
country two years earlier,
before being driven out by
intervening French forces, was
preparing to try again, this
time joined by even more
extremist veterans of
insurgencies in Pakistan, Yemen,
and Afghanistan. Their strategic
objective is to establish in
Mali a secure base from which to
expand jihad throughout north
and west Africa. A further
complication is the discovery of
enormous petroleum deposits
underlying the Malian Sahara.
November Station and nearby
Mopti become the focal points of
an ultimately deadly
international competition for
political, military, and
economic dominance.
In
this entry in his
Intelligence Community series,
Frederick Harrison again ranges
broadly in player and locale,
telling his fast-moving story
perhaps a bit ahead of actual
events.
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The Bin-Laden
Prize
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| A website in Yemen
associated with the Islamic
jihad announces the offer of a
$25,000,000 prize, in memory of
Osama bin-Laden, to be awarded
the group or individual
perpetrating an attack in the
continental United States that
exceeds in impact the
catastrophe of 9/11. Some in the
Muslim world believe it a plot
to entice would-be contenders to
expose themselves to CIA
counteraction, but the FBI is
informed that the Prize’s
sponsors are actually prominent
businessmen in New York City.
The Bureau borrows operative
Hannah Crossman from the CIA to
go undercover on the staff of
their organization in an effort
to obtain evidence sufficient to
prosecute. Her mission becomes
complicated by the intervention
of a far more dangerous group of
individuals insisting it be
recognized as a leading claimant
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The Drone
Paradigm
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| In a bid to
conclude American involvement in Afghanistan
successfully, Washington places a risky bet on the
prospects of would-be Taliban leader Mir Batani Khan, a young, fearless
insurgent seeking to unite the warring factions
within Afghanistan under his leadership to develop
the country's bountiful resources and great economic
potential. CIA provides cash and covert assistance
in the form of drone strikes against common enemies.
Operative Hannah Crossman and others are deployed to
advise Batani and keep him alive. After a number of
bold strikes, however, it becomes apparent that
Batani's success has alarmed Pakistan's leadership,
which fears a prospective competition with a
resurgent Afghanistan. Action shifts rapidly from
Washington to Paris to Islamabad to Dushanbe, Kabul,
the hinterlands of Afghanistan and back again.
Frederick Harrison's characters range from the
insurgent-on-the-street to the President of the
United States, all against a present day, real world
background that will absorb the reader's interest. |
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Her Eyes Were
Filled With Tears
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| With few
resources in lawless Somalia, CIA joins
forces with Jamal Free, a highly successful
pirate devoting most of the ransom money
he’s collected to a counterinsurgency
campaign to free his native Somalia from the
extremist al-Shabaab, funded by the Agency’s
arch-opponent (but sometime collaborator)
Abdul Rashid, mastermind of the Islamist
jihad.
CIA officer Hannah Crossman, under cover as
a journalist, is sent to ride Free’s
flagship, Spear of Islam, a restored surplus
warship. Through Hannah, Free’s fighters are
provided with tactical intelligence support
from U.S. collection systems and, with CIA
assistance on the ground, they begin to gain
the upper hand in Mogadishu.
To counter, Abdul Rashid brings in fanatical
and experienced fighters from Afghanistan
and Pakistan, turning the leadership of al-Shabaab
over Ardeshir Zaballah, a Chechen fugitive.
Free’s relatively untrained troops begin to
be overwhelmed, and control in Somalia’s
capital and the countryside starts to shift
back to the extremists. Filled with new
confidence, Zaballah resolves to strike
directly against Jamal Free (and Hannah).
In the fourth of his Intelligence Community
novels, Frederick Harrison again brings
readers into the company of a broad range of
realistically drawn characters ranging from
the President of the United States to an
insurgent fighter in the streets of
Mogadishu. Outcomes in Her Eyes Were Filled
With Tears are not always satisfactory or
clear, but the world they reflect is real,
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The RCI
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| The Remote Compliance Inducer
(the RCI), an electronic device designed to
steer the decisions of those subjected to its
radiated signal, is offered to senior executives of
the U.S. Government for no cost evaluation. All
assume it to be a hoax or potential fraud, but are
intrigued by the advantages to be gained, should it
perform as claimed. Admiral Philip Bergen,
Director of National Intelligence, becomes involved,
along with the FBI, when an Inducer is discovered in
the White House, radiating from a room below the
Oval Office. Examination by the National Security
Agency reveals the technology to be of Russian or
Soviet origin, and newly elected President Mason
Kitteridge directs the DNI to organize an immediate
investigation. Bergen finds the mystery of the
RCI to be entangled in the urgent threats and
challenges to the United States and its leadership:
the rise of Islamic extremism and the power
aspirations of a resurgent Russia.
As in his earlier
Intelligence Community novels, An Opaque War and A
Course To Stay, the author involves the reader in
the day-to-day interaction of a large cast of
characters ranging from the President of the United
States to a shadowy Jihadist mastermind in Paris, to
an embattled Pakistani police officer in Islamabad
as the story lines of The RCI converge and move
rapidly toward resolution on a global stage.
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An Opaque War
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In the complex, highly
ambiguous war on terrorism, the task of connecting
the dots is complicated by differences of perception
and motivation brought to the process by the many
involved, and sometimes competing, organizations and
individuals. "An Opaque War" explores the
interaction of intelligence and Law Enforcement with
White House politics at their point of intersection:
Fleet Week in the harbor of New York City. As a
terrorist plot develops and moves toward an
explosive climax, it is not clear that there are
dots, much less how they are to be connected. The
reader becomes involved in following the players,
both friend and enemy, as their lives and events
move toward a dramatic and violent finale.
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A Course To Stay
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Admiral Philip Bergen,
Director of National Intelligence, is caught between
the demands of the global war on terror and those of
a White House increasingly focused on the coming
Presidential election. A dramatic alteration of U.S.
strategy for combating Islamic extremism may be in
the offing, prompted by a growing crisis in
Pakistan. Its effect may be as dramatic as the shift
of the Soviet Union from World War II ally to Cold
War enemy. The pace of events is rapid and the sweep
broad. A Course To Stay begins in Washington and
ends in Afghanistan, with London, Paris, Ankara,
Islamabad, and Karachi in between. As in his earlier
novel, An Opaque War, the author tells his story
through the day-to-day interaction of his
characters, all drawn with real-world believability,
from the President to the leader of the
international Islamic jihad, to CIA field officers
dealing with the challenges of Pakistan and
Afghanistan. His command of insider detail and
finely tuned ear for authentic dialogue, against a
background of real-world global issues, puts the
reader in the company of a compelling cast of
personalities conducting the high-stakes affairs of
their nations, their business ventures, and their
God-driven crusades.
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