Paul Greengrass is to potentially direct a film adaptation of the memoir of Morten Storm, the white Dane who became radicalised and joined al-Qaida, before renouncing the organisation and becoming an MI5 and CIA informant.
Storm's extraordinary life story is recounted in Agent Storm: My Life Inside al-Qaeda, written with CNN journalists Tim Lister and Paul Cruickshank, and published this month. After a childhood in Denmark characterised by petty crime, a violent stepfather and running with a biker gang, Storm discovered Islam, and moved to the Middle East where he was radicalised. But the escalating violence of al-Qaida triggered a loss of faith in Islam, and drove him to defect to intelligence agencies in the UK, Denmark and the US and eventually, he claims, lead them to one of their primary targets, Anwar al-Awlaki. The CIA disputed his claims that his involvement directly led to al-Awlaki's death, and denied him a $5m reward.
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