CNN anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper joined the network in January 2013. The Lead with Jake Tapper, his one-hour weekday program, debuted in March 2013. Tapper was named host of the network's Sunday morning show, State of the Union, in June 2015. Tapper has been a widely respected reporter in the nation's capital for more than 14 years. His most recent book, The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, debuted in the top 10 on the New York Times bestseller list.
Praise for The Hellfire Club
Praise for THE OUTPOST:
"The Hellfire Club is hot summer reading"--Tampa Bay Times
"The Hellfire Club's first, thrilling scene pulled me into 1950s
Washington, D.C., and didn't let go until the last, satisfying
page. Tapper's passions for history and politics shine through in
this remarkably timely, page-turning debut."--Alafair Burke, author
of the New York Times Bestselling The Wife
"The Outpost is a mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism,
hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice. If you want
to understand how the war in Afghanistan went off the rails, you
need to read this book."--Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air and
Where Men Win Glory
"a splashy, swampy page-turner [that] plunges readers into the
heart of '50s Washington, D.C. The book showcases Tapper's passion
for American political history, rich as it is with fascinating
period details, as well as his feel for a story well-told."--David
Canfield, Entertainment Weekly
"[The Hellfire Club is] both an engaging and slyly timely foray
into Washington politics... incorporat(ing) shades of Frank Capra's
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as well as elements of contemporary
toxic alliances."--Seattle Review of Books
"[The Hellfire Club] has the best qualities of this sort of
historical fiction, which include the winking perspective of the
present."--Ben Smith, BuzzFeed
"[An] incredible account of how this outpost was horribly
jeopardized."--Booklist
"[A] fascinating history...Tapper delivers a blow by blow account
of [the soldier's] actions, their personal stories, and the
tortured, often incomprehensible command decisions that kept them
fighting despite inadequate support and an ally, Pakistan, that
actively encouraged the enemy."--Publishers Weekly
"[Jake Tapper] has woven an intricate account about battlefield
bravery hamstrung by military bureaucracy...[his] voice is
understated, not polemical-just a good reporter letting the facts
speak for themselves."--Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times
"A fast-paced, thrilling story of corruption and intrigue in
Washington, DC, Jake Tapper's The Hellfire Club is terrific:
provocative and timely."--Harlan Coben
"A fun, fast, gripping thriller full of real-life dirty dealmakers
and legendary political power-brokers. No one knows the ins and
outs of Washington politics like Jake Tapper."--Anderson Cooper, #1
New York Times Bestselling author of Dispatches from the Edge
"A heartbreaking chronicle of the rotation of soldiers asked to
oversee an underfunded, often thankless mission."--Sam Stein,
Huffington Post
"A heartbreaking, detailed day-to-day account ... Tapper does what
all great narrators do: He brings to life the individual men in a
way that allows readers to see each soldier in full, with their
unique backgrounds, hopes, dreams and families."--Susan Gardner,
dailykos.com
"An ambitious debut, a meticulously researched work of historical
fiction with a byzantine plot punctuated by explosive, Dan
Brown-esque twists"--Alexandra Alter, New York Times
"Analyzing the consequences of decisions, large and small, is what
makes Tapper's book so important...for those wishing to understand
the middle years of the war, they could do no better than to read
THE OUTPOST."--Nate Rawlings, Time
"As Rudyard Kipling did in the nineteenth century, now, in his
magnificent book, Jake Tapper takes us to an untamed part of
Afghanistan at war. Journey to THE OUTPOST to understand what our
troops go through-and why they go through it."--James Bradley,
author of FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, FLYBOYS and THE IMPERIAL CRUISE
"Brilliant, dedicated reporting by a journalist who goes to ground
to get the truth. A sad, real tale about this war, America and the
brave warriors who live-and die-at the point of the spear."--Bob
Woodward, author of PLAN OF ATTACK, THE COMMANDERS and OBAMA'S
WARS
"CNN's Jake Tapper proves he has the page-turning knack in his
entertaining debut novel"--Jocelyn McClurg, USA Today
"Fiction is as suspenseful as truth in Jake Tapper's The Hellfire
Club"--Vanity Fair, What to Read in May
"From the moment you enter The Hellfire Club's world of suspense
and intrigue and sex and danger, you won't want to leave. The
swampy world of 1954 Washington DC feels vividly relevant in our
current day politics. A must read!"--Shonda Rhimes
"Here's your chance to get up close and personal with John and
Bobby Kennedy, Nixon, Eisenhower, Kefauver, LBJ and Joe McCarthy.
Jake Tapper puts you right back in the 50's. At the same time,
Tapper has written a superior thriller that I couldn't stop
reading. To be completely honest though, Tapper is an irritating
bastard. Journalists like him are supposed to be writing dusty
non-fiction tomes that help us get to sleep, not thrillers that
keep us up half the night. The Hellfire Club is a helluva good
read. Now Tapper should return to writing non-fiction."--James
Patterson, #1 New York Times Bestselling author
"Insightful... Tapper takes readers back to a Washington remembered
for being a time of distrust and potential future conflicts. Key
historical figures interact with Tapper's fictional characters, and
with his sources at the end of the novel showcasing his research,
it almost feels like everything actually happened. It is fiction,
however, well-written and worthwhile."--Jeff Ayers, The Associated
Press
"Jake Tapper has written perhaps the best book set in Afghanistan
to date...He provides a window into the false hopes and visions
that enabled this failed experiment, an attempt to create
government in spaces that had actively avoided such."--Douglas
Ollivant, Foreign Policy
"Leave it to Tapper to find the truth in fiction. This great
buzzsaw of a mystery is packed with indecent politicians and secret
societies - making the 1950s setting just as relevant today. The
scariest part of The Hellfire Club is that it proves Washington -
and America - is forever mourning for the past."--Brad Meltzer, The
Escape Artist
"Mr. Tapper lays bare the poor decision-making that shattered
dozens of American lives in the pursuit of an ill-conceived
goal."--Sarah Chayes, Wall Street Journal
"One of the most important [books] of the year. Jake Tapper's book
is meticulously researched, excellently written and a must-read for
everyone who does more than just mouth the phrase, 'I support the
troops.' "--Curt Schleier, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Startlingly good...a reminder that the rarest thing of all in spy
novels is a writer willing to give us a character who could exist
just as easily in any kind of literary fiction."--Alexander Aciman,
Tablet
"Tapper uses his storytelling chops to deftly put you in the moment
when Joe McCarthy was waving his infamous paper and the Congress
was at peak skullduggery. Hellfire is a potent thriller, replete
with well-developed characters that made me think that history does
indeed repeat itself."--David Baldacci, #1 New York Times
Bestselling author of End Game
"The action comes fast and furious, "House of Cards" on steroids;
you'll be turning pages faster than a cable channel updates its
chyron. Perfect for an airplane or the beach, The Hellfire Club is
a worthy distraction from the real-life news cycle Tapper presides
over."--Cynthia Dickison, Minnesota Star Tribune
"The power of THE OUTPOSTlies in Tapper's development of the main
characters ... He juxtaposes dramatic battles, complete with limbs
blown off and eyes dangling from sockets, with poignant scenes of
wives and parents first learning of the deaths of their loved
ones."--Seth Jones, Washington Post
"The seminal work of documentary journalism to emerge out of the
post-9/11 war in Afghanistan."--Anand Sankar, Business Standard
"The Army uses the term 'BLUF' - bottom line up front. The BLUF on
Jake Tapper's new book on Afghanistan, THE OUTPOST, is that you
need to read it."--Kurt Schlichter, breitbart.com
"There have been many books written on the subject of America's
seemingly endless engagement in Afghanistan, but none better than
The Outpost."--Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
"This is a narrative, not a polemic, and Tapper patiently lays out
the history of what happened at Keating in a gripping, forceful
style...[T]his unadorned, powerful accountchallenges the purposes
and wisdom of America's ongoing military presence [in
Afghanistan]...A timely indictment of a thoughtless waste of young
American lives."--Kirkus Reviews
"This is a remarkably accomplished effort, especially for a first
novel, very much like a Brad Meltzer thriller: energetic and
mysterious, with plenty of suspense and a general feeling of evil
lurking just barely behind the scenes. Tapper brings an expert's
eye to the novel, too, layering it with the kind of detailed
political knowledge that only someone with his first-hand
experience could bring to the story. An auspicious
debut."--Booklist
"THE OUTPOST is valuable because its faithful account of bravery,
stupidity, and inertia makes the objective case for admiration and
outrage."--Sam Jacobson, Commentary
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