A review by rynb
American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent by Kevin Maurer, Tamer Elnoury

5.0

The only reason I decided to check this out of the library was because I saw that Sam Esmail and Rami Malek were attached to direct and star in the movie adaptations. I generally avoid "war on terror" related books and movies because I find them jingoistic and designed to make people paranoid about Muslims so they'll go along with giving up civil liberties, but I figured with an Egyptian American Muslim director, whose work I'm a huge fan of, was involved in making the film version, it was worth giving the book a shot. I'm glad I did.

The book reads like a crime thriller, and since I wasn't familiar with the case the book is about, it was a page turner that kept me engaged waiting to see what happened next.