Who killed Daniel Pearl? / Bernard-Henri Lévy ; translated by James X. Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lévy, Bernard-Henri.

Standardized Title:

Qui a tué Daniel Pearl. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Pearl, Daniel, 1963-2002--Assassination.

Pearl, Daniel.

Pearl, Daniel, 1963-2002.

Assassination.

Journalists--Crimes against--United States.

Journalists.

Journalists--Crimes against.

United States.

Physical Description:

xix, 454 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Melville House Pub., 2003.

Summary:

It's 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 -- where terrorists cross paths with nuclear scientists and the dreaded "services" ... where long-time sources are suddenly too petrified to talk... where Levy, Jewish himself, confronts the very dangers faced by Pearl -- and uncovers a series of stunning revelations. Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, the first book to investigate Pearl's killing, is a moving and heartfelt homage to the man Levy calls his "posthumous friend," and an unprecedented overview of the jihadist movement. It is, as well, a clarion call to come to a fuller understanding of the forces behind Daniel Pearl's murder... before it is too late.

Contents:

Part 1 Danny

Chapter 1 A Night in Karachi 3

Chapter 2 House of Torment 13

Chapter 3 A Mysterious Smile 23

Chapter 4 Mise a Mort 31

Chapter 5 With the Pearls 45

Chapter 6 Danny's Face 57

Part 2 Omar

Chapter 1 In the Eye of the Assassin 77

Chapter 2 A Perfect Englishman 87

Chapter 3 Why Bosnia? 103

Chapter 4 Return to Sarajevo 117

Chapter 5 From one Portrait, Another 135

Chapter 6 Reconstitution of a Crime 155.

Notes:

Originally published: Qui a tué Daniel Pearl. Paris : Grasset, c2003.

ISBN:

0971865949

OCLC:

52471540