"In wartime, some operation have to conduction outside the normal lines of authority. Nowhere is this more true than in modern AFghanistan, the setting for this riverting military thriller... Drawn from the author's own experiences with the U.S. intelligence and Special Operations communities, The Maverick Experiment reveals the inner workings of the internation intelligence machine and the gritty, blood-soaked reality of life on the front lines of the war in Afghanistan"--p. [4] of cover