A thrilling first-hand account by the husband-and-wife operatives who rebuilt the CIA's most
important network of sources in Asia after its sudden collapse in 2011 - an intelligence
disaster that espionage services around the world have transformed into a new cutting-edge
form of spycraft. Andrew and Jihi Bustamante are a husband-and-wife spy duo whose lives
revolved around the CIA. They met as trainees at Langley Virginia and built a family together
while hunting terrorists across the globe. But in 2010 they were pulled off the anti-terrorism
desk for an even bigger assignment: to head to Asia where the CIA's spy network in the
superpower that the Bustamantes code-named JADE KINGDOM - one of America's most formidable
rivals - had recently vanished dismantled practically overnight in a series of brutal murders
and quiet disappearances. With the CIA's most important Asian spy network in ashes the US had
been thrust into darkness just as its competition with JADE KINGDOM was entering a new even
more dangerous phase. Although not regional experts the Bustamantes brought to the table a
granular understanding of how terrorist cells operate and how to take them out. Now along
with a rag-tag team of CIA operatives they set about building a cell of their own - right at
the heart of JADE KINGDOM. The pressure on the Bustamantes was intense: it was only a matter of
time before America's intelligence blackout led to a wider cataclysm. As they were racing
against the clock a mole deep within the US intelligence community threatened their entire
operation leading to a dramatic cat-and-mouse game on the heavily surveilled streets of JADE
KINGDOM's capital city. The thrilling untold tale of one of history's greatest intelligence
failures and the unlikely band of agents who were sent in to clean up the mess Shadow Cell is
also the tale of how a couple of outside-the-box thinkers pioneered a bold new way of
spying-one that today has been adopted throughout Western intelligence services to meet the
national security challenges of the next century. A story so secret it still can't be told in
full Shadow Cell allows us to peer behind the curtain to see how one of the biggest spy wars
in the world is currently being fought - and won.
