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Quest and his stepsister Angela are thrust into the dangerous world of the American Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when they learn Angela's real mother was a former Secret Service agent who was killed by a terrorist group.

"A...look at "homegrown" Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present"--Dust jacket.

David Headley, the American-Pakistani also known as Daood Gilani, lived a double life. One day he would stroll through Central Park in his tailored Armani suit as a true New Yorker, and the next he would browse in the bazaar in Lahore wearing traditional Pakistani clothes. Born in 1960, the son of an American mother and Pakistani father, with one blue eye and one brown, Headley grew up between East and West. He was attracted to both worlds, even working as an informant for the US government, until one day he found he had to choose between the place of his birth and a radical form of Islam preaching global jihad. This is the disturbing story of the mastermind behind the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people. Two months later he flew to Copenhagen to plan another act of terror with the help of al-Qaeda sleeper cells in Europe.

When Jihadi John was revealed to be Mohammed Emwazi from Britain, the author realized with great shock that this was the same young man he had interviewed several years earlier. Back in 2010, Mohammed Emwazi was a twenty-six year old college graduate who claimed security services were ruining his life. He and his family had been repeatedly approached and questioned. In the aftermath of the US air strike that killed Emwazi in November 2015, Verkaik's investigations led him to deeply troubling questions, among them, why do hundreds of Britons want to join the Islamic State?.

ISIS has proved itself the greatest terrorist threat in the world today. The authors explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who are spreading violence and mayhem across the globe.

"Melodie", a twenty-year-old convert to Islam, living with her mother and sister in Toulouse, is on Facebook. There she meets Bilel, a high-ranking militant for ISIS in Syria. Within days he begins to talk with her about ISIS and Skypes her repeatedly, urging her to join him and do jihad. But "Melodie" is actually Anna Erelle, a Paris-based journalist exploring the recruitment channels of the Islamic State in order to understand how they get increasing numbers of young Europeans to join their cause. Anna chronicles her intense monthlong relationship with Bilel--who really is high-ranking as the right-hand man of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of ISIS. Bilel tells her that he has consulted an imam and they are already all but married---all she has to do to make it official is meet him in Syria. Anna actually leaves for Amsterdam to begin her journey to the Middle East to complete her investigation. But then things go terribly wrong.

Explores the political and social conditions for enticing children to join terrorist organizations and the indoctrination they receive that convinces them it is a good thing to die as a martyr.

Looks at the jihadist extremist militant group called ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).

Jason Bourne, who returns to Georgetown University to live the normal life of David Webb, starts to feel restless and is asked by his mentor, Professor Specter, to help investigate the murder of a student by the Black Legion, a Muslim extremist sect, while an operative from Central Intelligence tries to track down and kill Bourne.

Discusses the attack at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and an iconic photograph that captured the historic event.