Who Killed Daniel Pearl? Paperback / softback
by Bernard-Henri Levy
Paperback / softback
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French celebrity BHL's book commanded huge publicity and review attention on first hardcover publication and is now re-launched in paperback It is one of the most ghastly images of our time: the on-camera murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
But to acclaimed writer Bernard-Henri Levy the videotape was immediately suspect.
Why did it still include a ransom demand - for F-16 fighters to be delivered to Pakistan?
Were the kidnappers really just maniacal fundamentalists who killed Pearl because he was American and Jewish?
Operating via a series of ruses - such as using his expired diplomatic passport - Levy set off to trace Pearl's final steps...and those of his killer.
The result is a spell-binding book that combines a novelist's eye with riveting investigative journalism, as Levy travels the globe for the terrifying true story: to Los Angeles to talk to Pearl's family about his final, encrypted words; to England and Bosnia on the trail of the plot's mastermind; to Dubai, on the terrorist's money trail; to New Delhi, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and, most perilously, to Karachi.
In this city, terrorists cross paths with nuclear scientists and the dreaded "services" and long-
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Duckworth Overlook
- Publication Date:29/10/2004
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- ISBN:9780715633229
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Duckworth Overlook
- Publication Date:29/10/2004
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- ISBN:9780715633229
