The Cipher Brief Book Store

THE CIPHER BRIEF BOOK STORE

Cipher Brief Experts are literally writing the history of national security, sharing their expertise, research and often first-hand knowledge of events that are shaping our world. Here are books, authored or co-authored by The Cipher Brief team:

Stanley McChrystal:

Leaders: Myth and Reality
Publisher: Portfolio (October 23, 2018)

Team of Teams
Publisher: Portfolio (May 12, 2015)

My Share of the Task
Publisher: Portfolio (January 28, 2014)

Michael Chertoff:

Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (July 10, 2018)

James R. Clapper:

Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
Publisher: Viking (May 22, 2018)

John McLaughlin:

Creating Business Magic: How the Power of Magic Can Inspire, Innovate, and Revolutionize Your Business
Publisher: Mango (May 15, 2018)

General Michael Hayden:

The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
Publisher: Penguin Press, May 1, 2018

Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Publisher: Penguin (February 21, 2017)

Husain Haqqani:

Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
Publisher: HarperCollins India (April 9, 2018)

David Omand:

Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence
Publisher: Georgetown University Press (April 2, 2018)

Chris Fussell:

One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams
Publisher: Portfolio (June 13, 2017)

Admiral James Stavridis:

Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans
Publisher: Penguin Books (June 6, 2017)

Ali Soufan:

Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (May 2, 2017)

The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al Qaeda (with Daniel Friedman)
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (September 12, 2011)

Michael Sulick:

American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What to Do About It
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (January 16, 2017)

John Nixon:

Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein
Publisher: Blue Rider Press (December 27, 2016)

David Priess:

The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents
Publisher: Public Affairs (March 1, 2016)

Raymond Kelly:

Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City
Publisher: Hachette Books (September 8, 2015)

Bruce Hoffman:

Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
Publisher: Vintage (February 24, 2015)

Robert Grenier:

88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, January 27, 2015

Carmen Medina:

Rebels at Work: A Handbook for Leading Change from Within
Published: November 5, 2014

Tom Ridge: (with Tom McMillan)

Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11/
Publisher: Lyons Press, September 11, 2014

Steven Ward:

Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces
Publisher: Georgetown University Press, January 15, 2014

Daniel Markey:

No Exit from Pakistan: America’s Tortured Relationship with Islamabad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, October 7, 2013

Kenneth Pollack:

Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy
Publisher: Simons & Schuster, September 10, 2013

Mitchell D. Silber:

The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Dececember 13, 2011

Suzanne Simons:

Master of War: Blackwater USA’s Erik Prince and the Business of War
Publisher: Harper (June 6, 2009)

Emile Nakhleh:

Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society
Publisher: Lexington Books (May 9, 2011)

And these books, authored or co-authored by Under/Cover’s Senior Editor, Bill Harlow:

Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorist Trying to Destroy America
By James E. Mitchell, PhD with Bill Harlow
Publisher: Crown Forum; First Edition edition (November 29, 2016)

The Great War of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism from Al Qa’ida to ISIA
By Michael Morell with Bill Harlow
Publisher: Twelve; 1st edition (May 12, 2015)

Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives
By Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr. with Bill Harlow
Publisher: Threshold Editions (Simon & Schuster) (April 30, 2012)

At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
By George J. Tenet with Bill Harlow
Publisher: Harper Collins (April 30, 2007)

Circle William: A Novel
By Bill Harlow, Captain, United States Navy (Ret).
Publisher: Scribner (February 18, 1999)

The Staff

Suzanne Kelly

CEO and Publisher

Suzanne Kelly is CEO & Publisher of The Cipher Brief and most recently served as CNN`s Intelligence Correspondent before spending two years in the private sector. She also worked as an Executive Producer for CNN and as a news anchor at CNN International based in Berlin and Atlanta. In Berlin, she anchored a morning news program that was broadcast live in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and from Atlanta, she anchored a number of world news programs. She covered the NATO campaign in 1999 from Kosovo and Macedonia.

Brad Christian

Chief Operating Officer

Brad Christian is Chief Operating at The Cipher Brief. Prior to joining TCB he spent over a decade in the private sector. He has executive leadership experience in operations management, sales, training and business development. Previously he served in numerous overseas posts providing critical support to USG operations as a member of an elite protective unit. Prior to entering the private sector, he served for 10 years in the US Military including service with the Rangers and Special Forces. He is a graduate of Georgia State University.

Kim Dozier

Executive Editor

Kim Dozier is the Executive Editor of The Cipher Brief, and a CNN Global Affairs Analyst. She has covered intelligence and national security for The Associated Press and The Daily Beast, after 17 years as an award-winning CBS News foreign and national security correspondent. She held the 2014-2015 Gen. Omar Bradley Chair at the United States Army War College. A graduate of Wellesley College and UVA, she is a recipient of the Peabody Award, Edward R. Murrow Awards, and she was the first woman journalist recognized by the National Medal of Honor Society for her coverage of Iraq. She authored Breathing the Fire, about a devastating car bomb that hit a U.S. Army patrol and her CBS News team in Baghdad, Iraq in 2006.

Walter Pincus

Columnist

Walter Pincus is a Columnist and the Senior National Security Reporter at The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. In 2002, he and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He also won an Emmy in 1981 and the 2010 Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy.

Bennett Seftel

Director of Analysis

Bennett Seftel is the Director of Analysis at The Cipher Brief. He previously worked for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Bennett received his BA in Arabic Language and International Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and his MA in International Law and Global Security from Georgetown University.

Levi Maxey

Cyber and Technology Analyst

Levi Maxey is the Cyber and Technology Analyst at The Cipher Brief. He previously worked at the Stimson Center`s Managing Across Boundaries initiative in Washington D.C. as well as the Global Governance Institute`s Peace and Security Section in Brussels. Levi holds a Masters Degree from the Department of War Studies at Kings College London, focusing on international security in the digital age. He received a B.A. in International Studies from Roosevelt University in Chicago and studied European Peace and Security at Vesalius College in Brussels.

Brian Garrett-Glaser

Content Manager

Brian Garrett-Glaser is the Content Manager at The Cipher Brief. Prior to joining the company, he worked as a Public Affairs Specialist at Schatz Publishing and received a B.A. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.

Rogan Richer

Events and Marketing Coordinator

Rogan Richer is the Event and Marketing Coordinator for The Cipher Brief. Prior to joining The Cipher Brief, he worked in an administrative role at an outpatient mental health facility as well as a business development associate at a Maryland based hazardous protection company. Rogan is an Old Dominion University graduate and received a B.A in Political Science concentrating in Terrorism and Counterterrorism with a minor in Military Leadership. Rogan was born in Amman, Jordan.