Race Against Terror

Jake Tapper’s new book Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al-Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever War traces the extraordinary efforts of American law enforcement officers to gather evidence and build a case that would eventually put a terrorist in prison for life.

Military.com: “The case was essentially a murder investigation.

The suspect was in custody, and he’d even admitted to the killings; all investigators had to prove was that he was at the scene of the crime.”

“But the case wasn’t that simple: The victims were two U.S. service members, the crime scene was a remote battlefield in Afghanistan, and the suspect was a self-described al-Qaida terrorist — one who was also about to walk free if prosecutors couldn’t prove their case.”