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Desde el indeleble recuento de su estancia por Arabia Saud , pasando por la industria cinematogr fica siria, el conflicto de Gaza, y un devastador art culo sobre la captura y las ejecuciones de los cuatro periodistas y cooperadores internacionales en manos del Estado Isl mico y el estrepitoso fracaso de las democracias occidentales, en particular de Estados Unidos para hacer frente al conflicto que asola Oriente Medio, el lector se ve embarcado en una inquietante traves a por el mundo de la violencia yihadista, convirti ndose en observador de perpetradores, cabecillas, lobos solitarios, v ctimas y enemigos.

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Wright entreteje sus investigaciones en un sutil tapiz de experiencias personales y sensatas reflexiones.
James Traub, The New York Times Book Review

Fascinante ...] este libro llamar la atenci n de todos los lectores interesados en los or genes y posterior desarrollo de los movimientos terroristas.
Library Journal

Uno de los periodistas m s l cidos nos ayuda de nuevo a comprender el extremismo isl mico y la reacci n occidental.
Ahmed Rashid, The New York Times

Un prosa clara e incisiva ...] Cada reportaje es una mina de informaci ncondensada.
USA Today

Esto es reportaje de alto nivel. Lawrence Wright hace recuento de sus investigaciones con prosa cristalina sin perder su propio comp s moral.
Max Boot, The Wall Street Journal

With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken, from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS.

The Terror Years draws on several articles he wrote while researching The Looming Tower, as well as many that he's written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread. They include a portrait of the "man behind bin Laden," Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the tumultuous Egypt he helped spawn; an indelible impression of Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of silence under the control of the religious police; the Syrian film industry, at the time compliant at the edges but already exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil war; the 2006-11 Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, a study in the disparate value of human lives. Other chapters examine al-Qaeda as it forms a master plan for its future, experiences a rebellion from within the organization, and spins off a growing web of worldwide terror. The American response is covered in profiles of two FBI agents and the head of the intelligence community. The book ends with a devastating piece about the capture and slaying by ISIS of four American journalists and aid workers, and our government's failed response.