Other Title | Who Killed Daniel Pearl? |
GMD | Book![]() |
Classification | 364 LEV |
Publisher | Grasset |
Subject | Non-FictionAnti-Semitism--History.IslamTerrorism, internationalPakistanjewish interestHate CrimeJournalist |
Topic | Kidnap |
Description | Bernard-Henri Levy's Who Killed Daniel Pearl? offers a harrowing look at Pearl's life and tragic death wrought with a unique blending of journalism, novelist's imagination, and autobiography. Levy — an acclaimed French philosopher and bestselling author in Europe — in 2002 launched a one-year journey to understand Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl and the circumstances that led to his murder in Pakistan; the briskly paced result traces a thread from Pearl's killers through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and, possibly, to Al-Quaida. In building his case, Levy takes none of the news stories on face value. At great personal risk, he follows the same steps that Pearl walked to the very farm house where the journalist was killed. He seems to question everything and provides bearing witness as the truth-telling reportage required in a nation like Pakistan that "has lost even the very idea of what a free press could be." |
ISBN | 9782246650515 |