They Will Have To Die Now - Mosul And The Fall Of The Caliphate

James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul. This "urgent, scalding, hallucinatory work of reportage in the tradition of Michael Herr and Philip Gourevitch" (Patrick Radden Keefe) takes the reader into the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time.