Recommended Reading
The following publications provide information about counterterrorist units and intelligence agencies:
Andrew, Christopher. Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community. New York: Penguin, 1987.
Bamford, James. Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency, From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century. New York: Doubleday, 2001.
Begg, Moazzam, and Victoria Brittain. Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar. New York: New Press, 2006.
Berentsen, Gary. Human Intelligence, Counterterrorism, and National Leadership: A Practical Guide. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2008.
Betancourt, Ingrid. Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle. New York: Penguin, 2010.
Beyer, Cornelia, and Michael Bauer, eds. Effectively Countering Terrorism: The Challenges, Prevention, Preparedness, and Response. Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2009.
Biersteker, Thomas J., and Sue E. Eckert, eds. Countering the Financing of Terrorism. London: Routledge, 2008.
Bowden, Mark. The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012.
Coulson, Danny O., and Elaine Shannon. No Heroes: Inside the FBI’s Secret Counter-Terror Force. New York: Pocket, 1999.
Crank, John P., and Patricia E. Gregor. Counter-Terrorism After 9/11: Justice, Security, and Ethics Reconsidered. New York, Anderson, 2005.
Daalder, Ivo H., ed. Beyond Preemption: Force and Legitimacy in a Changing World. Washington, DC:
Brookings Institution Press, 2007.
Dolnik, Adam, and Keith M. Fitzgerald. Negotiating Hostage Crises With the New Terrorists. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.
Donahue, Laura K. The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2008.
Gardner, Hall. American Global Strategy and the “War on Terrorism.” Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007.
Ginbar, V. Why Not Torture Terrorists? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Grey, Stephen. Ghost Plane: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Rendition Programme. New York: St. Martin’s, 2006.
Harclerode, Peter. Secret Soldiers: Special Forces in the War Against Terrorism. London: Cassel, 2000.
Howard, Russell D., and Reid L. Sawyer. Defeating Terrorism: Shaping the New Security Environment.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Klein, Aaron J. Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel’s Deadly Response. New York: Random House, 2007.
Maras, Marie-Helen. Counterterrorism. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2013.
Mazzetti, Mark. The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth. New York: Penguin Press, 2013.
Pedahzur, Ami. The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Reeve, Simon. One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation “Wrath of God.” New York: Arcade, 2000.
Rich, Paul B., and Isabelle Duyvesteyn, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Rid, Thomas, and Thomas Keaney, eds. Understanding Counterinsurgency: Doctrine, Operations, and Challenges. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Shah, Niaz A. Self-Defense in Islamic and International Law. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Suskind, Ron. The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Thomas, Gordon. Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad. 5th ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
Tophoven, Rolf. GSG 9: German Response to Terrorism. Koblenz, Germany: Bernard and Graefe, 1984.
Warrick, Joby. The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA. New York: Doubleday, 2011.