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WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION “A Best Book of 2015”—The New York Times, The Washington Post, People Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, and Kirkus Reviews In a thrilling dramatic narrative, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction...

A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror. In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost...

I en dramatisk fortælling optrevler Pulitzerpris-vinder Joby Warrick, hvordan den militante gruppe bag Islamisk Stat (IS) opstod i et fjernt jordansk fængsel og blev til den største ekstremistiske trussel mod verden i dag. Den jordanske regering gav i 1999 amnesti til en gruppe politiske fanger. Blandt dem var Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, den fremtidige arkitekt bag en islamisk bevægelse opsat på at erobre Mellemøsten.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags comes the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power...