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The memoir of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl's wife
Scribner
September 2003
Featuring: Daniel Pearl; Mariane Pearl
320 pages
ISBN: 0743244427
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
In A Mighty Heart, an astonishingly courageous woman
tells the terrifying and unforgettable story of her
husband's life and death. For five weeks the world watched
and worried about Danny Pearl, a reporter for the Wall
Street Journal, kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan. And then
came the news of his shocking and brutal murder. Danny's
reasons for being in Karachi, the complete story of his
abduction, and the intense effort to find him are told here
for the first time. Mariane and Danny Pearl were
working in South Asia, as they had been elsewhere in the
world, because they believed that good reporting is
essential to our understanding of ethnic and religious
conflict around the globe. They knew the risks inherent in
the life they chose and took conscientious
precautions. The courage of Danny and Mariane is
extraordinary, yet we are dependent on brave journalists
everywhere to produce news coverage that educates us. There
are many mighty hearts in the Pearl story, many brave people
who helped Mariane in her search for her abducted husband.
This account is riveting, illuminating, and heartbreaking.
We learn, through the urgent tracing of Danny's last
movements, about the terrorists' methods, ideologies, and
ruthless violence. As soon as Pearl was discovered missing,
a global effort began to locate him and identify his captors
-- a race against the clock that spanned the dangerous
fissures of culture and politics and language that separate
Islamic terrorists and America. Only one person can
tell this story: Danny Pearl's wife, Mariane, for it was she
who initiated and helped direct the urgent search for her
husband and she who can paint a moving portrait of a
marriage built on the ideals of truth, justice, and love.
Intensely suspenseful despite the known outcome, uplifting
at the last, A Mighty Heart is essential reading for
our time.
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