The Counter-Terrorist
John O’Neill was an F.B.I. agent with an obsession: the growing threat of Al Qaeda.
"'O'Neill,' he growled. 'Who are you?' Clarke said. 'I'm John O'Neill,' the man replied. 'Who the hell are you?' O'Neill had just been appointed chief of the F.B.I.'s counter-terrorism section, in Washington. He was forty-two years old." — the agent who saw it coming