The Way of the Strangers : Encounters with the Islamic State

318pp. Indexed. Black cloth boards (strong, sharp, bright) with gilt titles to spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, unclipped dust jacket (very softly bumped at edges). A quest to understand the Islamic State, a round the world journey to the end of the night. The men encounters are misfits, some even losers, but their millenarian Islamist ideology makes them players in the world of global politics. Several other booksellers give 2016 as the first edition of this volume - this is incorrect; the text was copyrighted in 2016 but the book not published until 2017.