The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State

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These powerful investigative pieces, which take us from the religious police of Saudi Arabia to the upward thrust of the Islamic State, comprise an very important primer on jihadist movements within the Middle East—and the attempts of the West to contain them. In these pages, Lawrence Wright examines al-Qaeda as it experiences a insurrection from within and spins off a growing internet of around the world terror. He shows us the Syrian film industry before the civil war—compliant on the edges but already exuding a barely masked fury. He gives us the guts-wrenching story of American children kidnapped by ISIS—and Atlantic publisher David Bradley’s efforts to protected their release. And he details the jobs of key FBI figures John O’Neill and his talented protégé Ali Soufan in fighting terrorism. In a moving epilogue, Wright shares his predictions for the future. Rigorous, clear-eyed, and compassionate, The Terror Years illuminates the complex human players on all sides of a devastating conflict. 

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