Decade of Fear Reporting from Terrorism's Grey Zone

ISBN: 9781553656593 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1553656598 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource (281 p.)
Publisher: New York : Douglas &amp; McIntyre, 2011.

Summary: 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 ab.