Jake Tapper is Back Again—With a Real Life Criminal Thriller

The CNN anchor recounts the strange case of an Al Qaeda operative who washed up in Italy with a claim he'd killed two American soldiers

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A literary agent asked me the other day about writing another book. “Good lord,” I said. “I can’t imagine finding the time to do that while keeping SpyTalk up to speed.”

So you can imagine how astonished I am at what CNN anchor Jake Tapper does. He’s on the air every weekday with his own show, “The Lead with Jake Tapper.” Sure, he’…