Operation Jihadi Bride, John Carney
Operation Jihadi Bride, John Carney
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Operation Jihadi Bride
My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story

Author: John Carney, Clifford Thurlow

Narrator: Clifford Thurlow, John Carney

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Monoray

Published: 07/11/2019


Synopsis

Soldier Magazine's Book of the Month

Fascinating... Incredibly dangerous. The Times

Gripping. Adrenalin fuelled true-life account with all the makings of a military thriller. The action unfolds like a Le Carre novel. Soldier Magazine

Jihad isn't a war. It's an objective. An aberration. If there are young women with children, lost boys... If they are trapped in that hell and we can get them out, don't we have a duty to do so? Every person we can bring back is living proof that Islamic State is a failure.'

Ex-British Army soldier John Carney was running a close protection operation for oil executives in Iraq when the family of a young Dutch woman asked him to extract her from the collapsing 'Islamic State' in Syria. Hearing first-hand about the naive young girls, many from the West, who'd been tricked, sexually abused and enslaved by ISIS, he knew only one thing - he had to get them out of that living hell.

This is the incredible true story of how - armed with AK-47s and 9mm Glocks - Carney launched a daring, dangerous and deadly operation to free as many of them as he could. From 2016 to 2019, he led his small band of committed Kurdish freedom fighters into the heart of the Syrian lead storm.

Backed by humanitarian NGOs, and feeding intel to MI6, Carney and his men went behind enemy lines to deliver the women and their children to the authorities, to deradicalization programmes and fair trials.

Carney, a born soldier, was moved to action by the women's terrifying stories. He and his men risked their lives daily, not always making it safely home...

Gripping, shocking and thought-provoking, Operation Jihadi Bride tackles the complex issue of the jihadi brides head on - an essential read for our troubled times.

About John Carney

John Carney, 42, served six years in the Yorkshire Regiment and did two tours in Northern Ireland. He was a team leader in Iraq with Aegis Defence Services, the multi-million-pound private security firm set up by Colonel Tim Spicer. He has operated a close protection service in Iraq since 2011 and currently organizes deradicalization programmes on the Syrian/Turkish border. To protect his family, the name John Carney is a pseudonym. Names of his family and colleagues have been changed.

About Clifford Thurlow

Clifford Thurlow has lived all over the world and has worked as a gem stone dealer and a foreign correspondent for the Observer in Athens. The winner of the London Arts Board New Millennium Prize for short fiction, he is best known as a ghostwriter. His recent books include: Making A Killing, the inside story of a hired gun in Iraq, and Escape from Baghdad with Captain James Ashcroft; Fatwa, Living with a Death Threat for Jacky Trevane; and Today I'm Alice for Alice Jamieson.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Norma on November 23, 2019

Operation Jihadi Bride is the gripping story of the rescue of young women who were tricked, sexually abused and enslaved by ISIS. After hearing the women’s terrifying stories, John Carney and his men decide to rescue them from that horrible ordeal. This is no easy task. There are many obstacles and......more

Goodreads review by Rosemarie on June 25, 2020

See blog 6th July 2020 for full review. Thanks to the publisher for my copy of this book.......more

Goodreads review by Gino on July 22, 2019

What if it were my daughter? This is the question that that troubles and ultimately motivates John Carney, a former soldier and personal-security specialist, when he receives a plea for assistance from a British Pakistani family whose daughter had become a jihadi bride to avoid an arranged marriage......more

Goodreads review by Christina on May 22, 2020

Such a gripping story! This book gives a look into John Carney's (pseudonym for protection) mission to save young women and children from the grips of ISIS. There are some parts that are tough to swallow, as can be expected. It is incredible to hear how him and his team endangered their lives for li......more

Goodreads review by Susan on January 16, 2020

This book s a real eye-opener. It is also extremely worrying as what John Carney ( not his real name)says based on intelligence from those on the ground in the Middle East is worrying. They feel that what is happening in the Middle East is part of a far larger plan to infiltrate Europe then the worl......more


Quotes

Fascinating... Incredibly dangerous. The Times

Gripping. Adrenalin fuelled true-life account with all the makings of a military thriller. Soldier Magazine

An extraordinary book. Nihal Arthanayake, BBC Radio 5 Live