Episode · The Shawn Ryan Show · 2026-02-16
Books mentioned on #280 Sarah Adams - If China Isn’t the #1 Threat… Then Who Is?
For years, Sarah Adams has worked where threat warnings begin, not where they end. She is a targeting officer and global threat advisor with deep expertise in counterterrorism, threat network analysis, and overseas intelligence operations.
Sarah Adams discussed Holy Blood by Paul Overby.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Holy Blood
Discussed“And then unfortunately the last person's Paul Overby and he I don't know if you know he was a writer and he actually wrote about the first Afghan war. So he put out a book I think it was like holy blood in the '9s and he wrote about the Soviet Afghan war. Well, he was back over there.”
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Plugged Benghazi : Know Thy Enemy
“Sarah Adams, former CIA targeting officer with years on the front lines of counterterrorism, known by your call sign, Superbad, former senior adviser to the US House Select Committee on Benghazi, co-author of Benghazi Know Thy Enemy, where you and your team identified the masterminds behind the 2012 attacks on our embassy.”