For the first time, No Shadows in the Desert tells the full story of “Operation Guillotine.” Drawing on Samuel M. Katz’s sources within Joint Special Operations Command, U.S. SOCOM, the CIA, and DIA, he shows how the destruction of ISIS was actually carried out on the ground. Notably, too, he has close sources within the Kurdish Peshmerga, whose remarkable women fighters became an inspiring presence in the operation.   But it was the spies of Jordan’s GID, the most adept practitioners of human intelligence in the Middle East, who proved key to the anti-ISIS effort. ISIS was unable to hide from them, and Jordan’s cooperation with the U.S. was essential in this campaign. Working together, this unique coalition succeeded in what had been unthinkable: destroying ISIS in its lair, and creating a strategic partnership that promises to change how terrorism is pursued in the Middle East.   No Shadows in the Desert reveals an old-f