Hunting Season: James Foley, ISIS, and the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a War

by James Harkin

2020-07-01 15:01:21

Based on his groundbreaking reporting forVanity Fair,Hunting Seasonis award-winning journalist James Harkin''s harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of James Foley, at the hands of the masked militant known as "Jihadi J... Read more
Based on his groundbreaking reporting forVanity Fair,Hunting Seasonis award-winning journalist James Harkin''s harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of James Foley, at the hands of the masked militant known as "Jihadi John" (Mohammed Emwazi), and the fate of more than two-dozen other ISIS hostages.

On August 19, 2014, the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled "Message to America," the clip depicted the final moments of American journalist James Foley''s life--and the gruesome aftermath of his beheading at the hands of a masked executioner. Foley''s murder--and the choreographed killings that would follow--captured the world''s attention, and the Islamic State''s kidnapping campaign exploded into war.Hunting Seasonis a riveting account of how the world''s newest and most powerful terror franchise came to target Western hostages, who was behind it, and why almost no one knew about it until it was too late. Less

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File size9.25 X 6.5 X 1 in
Print pages256
PublisherHachette Books
Publication date November 10, 2015
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780316305174

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