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The Gray Bird of Baghdad: An Ex-Secret Service Agent‘s Desperate Mission to Save an Iraqi Scientist
The Gray Bird of Baghdad: An Ex-Secret Service Agent‘s Desperate Mission to Save an Iraqi Scientist
The Gray Bird of Baghdad: An Ex-Secret Service Agent‘s Desperate Mission to Save an Iraqi Scientist
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A missing Iraqi scientist, an ex–Secret Service agent, and the threat of another biological terrorist attack—all these elements come together in the gripping true story of the Gray Bird of Baghdad.

Iraqi Microbiologist Thamer Abdul Rahman Imran has information vital to stopping the unthinkable: a biological attack on the US. When he learns that the new Iraqi government wants to arrest him and the insurgents want to kill him, he goes into hiding.

Racing against time, ex–Secret Service agent Steve Monteiro and his team set out on a mission to find the missing scientist and learn what he knows. The journey takes them from the White House to the Middle East as they fight bureaucrats in Washington who want them to fail. Why? And what is this vital information that Thamer possesses?

The Gray Bird of Baghdad tells the true story of one’s man’s quest to protect his country and another man’s fight to save his family from the ravages of a country at war.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherSparkPress
Release dateAug 30, 2022
ISBN9781684631520
The Gray Bird of Baghdad: An Ex-Secret Service Agent‘s Desperate Mission to Save an Iraqi Scientist
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Stephen Phillip Monteiro

Stephen Phillip Monteiro is an expert in security, forensics, intelligence, and bioterrorism. He spent more than twenty years as a Special Agent with the US Secret Service and served in the US Navy, where he was trained in cryptology. He was a member of the elite Presential Protective Division at the White House and served as the Special Agent in Charge and director of the Forensic Crime Laboratory. Later, he became a Senior Advisor to the Director of Weapons of Mass Destruction Intelligence for the DHS focusing on bioterrorism and received the Director of National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation for his work on Iraqi scientists. His expertise has led to appearances on episodes of The Forensic Files, the National Geographic Channel, and the History’s Channel’s America's Book of Secrets, as well as local newscasts. He currently resides in Annapolis, MD.

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