James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State.
This "urgent, scalding, hallucinatory work of war reportage" (Patrick Radden Keefe) takes the reader into the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time..
He stayed to cover the jihadis\' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year.
James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State