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Nine Lives

My Time As MI6's Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda

Aimen Dean with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister

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Nine Lives (2018) is the thrilling story of Aimen Dean, a double agent who worked for British intelligence from inside al-Qaeda at the turn of the millennium. Once a committed jihadi, he lost faith in al-Qaeda’s mission and turned informant.

Who Should Listen to Nine Lives?

  • People interested in the War on Terror
  • Memoir enthusiasts
  • Lovers of a good spy thriller

About the Author: Aimen Dean with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister

Aimen Dean was once a member of al-Qaeda who later spied on the organization for MI6. His coauthors Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister are, respectively, CNN’s terrorism analyst and editor-in-chief of CTC Sentinel, and a British producer and reporter who has worked for the BBC and CNN. Cruickshank and Lister previously wrote Agent Storm with Morten Storm.

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