'Brooklyn to Baghdad:' From fighting crime in New York to fighting terror in Iraq

Brooklyn to Baghdad

Christopher Strom already had an illustrious career as an NYPD intelligence Sergeant when he was recruited to be part of an elite counterinsurgency team known as "Phoenix".

His new book "Brooklyn to Baghdad" is a first-hand account of going from tracking down terrorists on the streets of New York to grilling insurgency leaders in the interrogation rooms of Iraq. 

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