The unflinching dispatches of an embedded war reporter covering ISIS - the most radical antagonist that has yet emerged in the Middle East - and the unlikely alliance of Iraqi special forces, Kurdish militia, and shadowy U.S. soldiers who came together to defeat it.
Few journalists got as close to the war, and to protagonists on both sides of it, as Giglio, who spent six years reporting on the rise and fall of the ISIS proto-state. He presents a chilling portrait of the destructive power of extremism, and of the tenacity and astonishing courage required to defeat it.
