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Reporting from Terrorism's Grey Zone
Douglas & McIntyre
September 2011
On Sale: September 13, 2011
271 pages
ISBN: 155365658X
EAN: 9781553656586
Kindle: B005JFXYT0
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Decade of Fear is a darkly entertaining journey
through the complicated, often bizarre world of national
security since 9/11. On that night, Toronto Star journalist
Michelle Shephard watched the remains of New York’s
World Trade Center fall from the sky, wondering what much of
the world was asking: “Why?” So began a ten-year search for
answers that took her through the streets of Mogadishu and
Karachi, into the mountains of Waziristan and behind the
wire of Guantanamo Bay two dozen
times.
Shephard conducted hundreds of
interviews worldwide, and with sharp insight and an
appreciation for the absurd, she weaves together stories of
warlords, presidents, spies, grieving widows and global
terrorists, to describe the historic decade where often the
West’s “solutions” for terrorism only served to exacerbate
the problem. She cruises with former CIA bosses, runs
alongside protestors in the streets of Sanaa to escape fire
from Yemen’s security services during experience the Arab
Spring, meets victims of terrorism who leave her devastated,
and earns enough stamps on her Gitmo Starbucks card for a
free latte. Gripping, heartbreaking and infuriating,
Decade of Fear broadens our understanding of a decade
that was all too often described through panicked rhetoric.
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