Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul. This "urgent, scalding, hallucinatory work of reportage in the tradition of Michael Herr and Philip Gourevitch" (Patrick Radden Keefe) takes the reader into the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time.
Synopsis
James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year. This "urgent, scalding, hallucinatory work of war reportage" (Patrick Radden Keefe) takes the reader into the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time.