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The Way of the World weaves together the stories of world leaders, government officials, intelligence agents, and global citizens. To learn more about the principal characters and read excerpts from the book introducing them, click on the names below.
Cast of Characters (in order of appearance)
a former CIA agent, now head of intelligence at the Energy Department
the 43rd president of the United States
a civil rights lawyer, representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay
a Guantanamo detainee
a 24-year-old Pakistani émigré living in Washington
a top Pakistani law enforcement official
an Afghan national coordinating a U.S.-Afghanistan cultural exchange program
a social worker from Denver and host mom of Ibrahim Frotan
an Afghan teenager who spends an eventful year in American high school
a State Department veteran and former UN refugee commissioner, now head of the Middle East Institute
a former CIA agent, now CEO of private espionage firm Total Intelligence Solutions
head of the FBI's Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate
former head of WMD analysis at CIA
a British intelligence agent
former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
former number two at MI6
the head of Iraqi intelligence until 2003
the former top security and counterterrorism official in Britain
an outspoken radical Islamic leader exiled from the UK in 2005
Bakri's protégé and the lead voice of radical Islam in Britain
two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan
a Saudi dissident and alleged associate of al Qaeda
a lawyer and military intelligence officer formerly tasked with reviewing the cases of Guantanamo detainees
the king of Jordan
a teacher from Kane, Pennsylvania and Ibrahim's second host mom
Ibrahim's close friend, romantic interest, and prom date in Kane, Pennsylvania
Usman's sister, a religious Muslim living in London
the head of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan until June 2008
the former head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)
a former CIA agent and top official in the Iraq Operations Group
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