Author: Bernard-Henri Levy
James X Mitchell/
Translator(s): James X Mitchell
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 474
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129107082
Description
It was a horrible tragedy, but what if, hidden behind the story of the gruesome on-camera murder of journalist Daniel Pearl, was another, still darker story? What if his murderers weren’t just fanatic followers of Osama bin Laden? What if he wasn’t killed-as was universally assumed-because he was Jewish and American?
What if he was murdered because he was a reporter who was on to something?
REVIEWS
I commend this book, one of the few to ask hard questions, harder than the questions the Pakistani investigators appear to have asked, harder, even, then the questions the US embassy in Islamabad was willing to ask, Levy has a good heart and a noble sense of outrage, You cannot help but admire a man who has so much compassion.
-The Wall Street Journal
A gripping synthesis of philosophy and reportage.
-The New York Times Book Review
Levy brilliantly combines a sharply observed diary of how it feels to track the terrorist trail, as Danny Pearl attempted, with passionate political and philosophical denunciation of Pakistan, which he labels the biggest rogue of all the rogue states of today.
-The Philadelphia Inquirer
Gripping, full of suspenseful twists, bold theories, thrilling, a credit to the investigative reporter whose work it seeks to honor.
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Contents
FOREWORD
PART ONE: DANNY
A Night in Karachi
House of Torment
A Mysterious Smile
Mise A Mort
With the Pearls
Danny’s Face
PART TWO: OMAR
In the eye of the Assassin
A Perfect Englishman
Why Bosnia?
Return to Sarajevo
From One Portrait, Another
Reconstitution of a Crime
PART THREE: CRIME OF STATE
Mysteries of Karachi
Press Review
A Shadowy Affair
The Double Life of Omar
When the Killer Confesses
In the Demon’s Lair
PART FOUR: AL-QAIDA
Return to the House of the Crime
The Mosque of the Taliban
Jihad Money
At the Heart of darkness
Bin Laden’s Favored Son
Bad Omens for the investigator
PART FIVE: OVER INTRUSIVE
A fellow of no collective importance
The man who knew too much
In the footsteps of Daniel Pearl
The Assassins are among Us
The Bomb for bin Laden?
Gentle Islam