Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

<b>WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION<br><br>“A Best Book of 2015"-<i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, <i>People</i> Magazine, <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, <i>Kansas City Star</i>, and <i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br><br>In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. Drawing on unique high-level access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. <i>Black Flags</i> is a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of today's most dangerous extremist threat.