Homeland: Carrie’s Run

Homeland: Carrie’s Run
Andrew Kaplan

An edge-of-your-seat original prequel novel based on Showtime’s hit series, HOMELAND, ‘the best thriller on American television’ New York PostBeirut, 2006. CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison barely escapes an ambush while attempting a clandestine meeting with a new contact code-named Nightingale. Suspicious that security has been compromised, she challenges the station chief in a heated confrontation that gets her booted back to Langley.Expert in recognizing and anticipating behavioral patterns—a skill enhanced by the bipolar disorder she keeps secret to protect her career—Carrie is increasingly certain that a terrorist plot has been set in motion. Carrie risks a shocking act of insubordination that helps her uncover secret evidence connecting Nightingale with Abu Nazir, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Determined to stop the terrorist mastermind, she embarks on an obsessive quest that will nearly destroy her.Filled with the suspense and plot twists that have made Homeland a must-watch series, this riveting tale reveals the compelling untold backstories of the series’ main characters and takes fans deeper into the life and mind of one brilliant woman spy.

HOMELAND: CARRIE’S RUN

Andrew Kaplan

Copyright

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Version: 2016-11-21

To my son, Justin, who makes everything better,andto the men and women of the U.S. intelligence services,who pursue in shadow the most elusive commodity on earth—truth

AUTHOR’S NOTE

For readers interested in additional information on the characters, organizations and agencies described in this novel, a glossary and a list of characters are provided at the back of the book.

Table of Contents

Cover (#u4ec044ac-dc11-5de9-8f63-3f194f8c0605)

Title Page (#ubdb62081-bd90-51e9-add3-0d4856b5b3f8)

Copyright (#u71042a10-e5ed-5426-83a0-0e14c1086e6c)

Dedication (#u0dd66631-ce0e-522b-b3b2-dc7d62c27123)

Author’s Note (#ub8b0257d-d7b5-5254-8c14-13d2ddaf6656)

2006 Before Brody (#ue5f79d75-3e0d-5cf4-a681-0f259bb06622)

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Chapter 2 (#ude7d2614-61f8-5e9d-b4d3-c4fb66688422)

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