Ali Soufan’s “Anatomy of Terror” Tops New York Times 12 New Books List
The New York Times
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ANATOMY OF TERROR: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State, by Ali Soufan. (W.W. Norton & Company)In his revealing and timely new book, Soufan, a former F.B.I. special agent, focuses on how Al Qaeda and the Islamic State have evolved in recent years — their philosophies, trajectories and how the personalities of their leaders have shaped the organizations. The book “not only tells a gripping story,” our critic Michiko Kakutani wrote, “but is filled with insights that put today’s terror attacks . . . in perspective with the history and complicated geopolitics of the region.”
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