A review by daisycutter
The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence Wright

4.0

This book is fascinating. It really gave me a more rounded understanding of the evolution of jihadist terrorism between the late 90s and present day. The only downside: it's not very cohesive. Currently it reads like a compilation of semi-related essays and articles. Sometimes Wright writes in the style of a historian. Sometimes he writes more like a journalist, and some chapters read like straight up memoir. I wish he had streamlined this into more of a narrative. It's a minor complaint though. Anyone interested in geopolitics should pick this up.