The Sniper and the Wolf

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This book is dedicated to the men and women whose lives have been lost in fighting the war on terrorism worldwide.

On April 8, 2014, the director of the Russian Federal Security Service confirmed the death of Dokka Umarov, the Chechen Islamist militant responsible for Moscow Metro bombings in 2010. Though the exact date and place of his death remain unknown, his demise has been confirmed by the United States government, and he was removed from the US State Department’s Rewards for Justice list in April 2014.

Former White House chief of staff Tim Hagen sat beside the pool at his Cancún hotel on the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula sipping a piña colada and skimming a paperback copy of The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Though he knew each of the twenty-seven concepts backward and forward, he enjoyed studying the printed words, searching them for insight into the mind that had written them. He was particularly interested in the concepts covered in chapter thirteen, “The Use of Spies.”

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