Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda

He was the Western convert who would plunge deep inside al-Qaeda. He named his first son Osama after 9/11 and became a Jihadist. But then - after a sudden loss of faith - Morten Storm made a life-changing decision. He became a double agent for the CIA, MI6 and MI5.

Filled with hair-raising close calls and duplicity, Storm's story builds to the climactic finale when he must betray his friend and mentor al-Awlaki - al-Qaeda's biggest threat to the West. Storm is trusted to find al-Awlaki a wife from Europe. She becomes the bait for a possible American drone strike . . .

'Brother, let's go, just me and you, and do this mission.  I need you to be there with me.'

'I'm with you, brother,' I replied, feeling the words sounded less than convincing.

He embraced me.  'This is the best, Murad, the best.  We get to be shuhada [martyrs].  There's nothing better than this, remember that.'

'I know.  This is paradise.  We are mujahideen and this is what we fight for,' I replied, summoning all the conviction I could manage.

He wants me to die with him, I thought.  How am I going to get out of this?