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Jamal Hassim is a respected Air Force major. Ahn, his brilliant Philippine wife, is a leading scientist at the Centers for Disease Control. For years they've operated a successful Islamic charity in partnership with the U.S. AID program. But when the NSA accidentally picks up a suspicious phone call, the true purpose behind their charitable work takes on a sinister and deadly cast. Are the Hassim's using tax dollars to finance a devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Or are they well intentioned aid workers whose private words have been misunderstood? The FBI sends Conner Skilling, an experienced cooperating witness domiciled in East Asia to find out. On the remote South Pacific island of Vanuatu, Skilling uses his considerable skills as a retired con man to orchestrate a series of taped conversations in an effort to probe the Hassim's motives. But is this taped evidence trustworthy, or just a ruse to deflect attention from a more dangerous plot? A series of spellbinding clues based on fact and fiction reveal a criminal conspiracy that includes an internationally famous businessman with a taste for danger, a phony sheik, hundreds of stolen surface to air missiles, pump and dump stock fraud on Wall Street, a rouge detective from Brooklyn, and a trail of betrayal and deceit that reaches into the uppermost sanctums of the Justice Department. Inspired by the true exploits of a financial criminal turned informant, this action-packed legal thriller takes readers on a wild ride through board rooms in Australia, plantations on forgotten Pacific isles, and into a New York City courtroom in pursuit of the shocking truth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1598599 in Books
• Published on: 2009-11-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 267 pages

Review
"From the very start I felt as though I were leafing through some of the most top secret files of Echelon, the NSA and the FBI. The Cooperating Witness paints a realistic, frightening and suspenseful account of how a select group of American agents identify potential terrorists, and the imperfect evidence they often rely on to make a case." --Ashleigh Banfield, co-host Banfield & Ford: Courtside

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A Spellbinding Account
The Cooperating Witness is an incredibly intense yet spellbinding novel. Taped conversations and witness accounts expose us to unusual activities by such suspects as Jamal Hassim, Company Director of a 'cover-up' company and who is also a highly trained Air Force Major who secretly trains and supports international terrorists.

An alarming thought and true-to-life taped conversations lead us to an immediate awareness that Hassim has intimate in-depth access to military bases, storage depots, advanced weaponry as well as the most sophisticated fighter jets currently used, which gives us reason to be concerned about public security.

In comparison, the catastrophic September 11 crime reinforces our assumptions that these clandestine meetings carry on to such an extent that serious crimes such as the reported shooting down of an American passenger airplane, which injured and killed numerous passengers and other similar reports, accentuate the need for stringent public security measures.

The book really sheds light on vital points as these and address the urgency of measures to be implemented.

Very interesting findings in the novel itself. The taped dialogue, the random conversations, the clandestine activities all contribute to the authenticity of the novel. The ambience is one of realistically thinking that such happenings did and could easily take place in our neighbourhood.

It genuinely explores bringing to the fore matters which affect us now, even. The novel reads like a 'spy-fiction' that isn't a story but part of what we actually face at the current time and that's what makes it so chilling yet comprehensible.