Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
by Bernard-Henri Lévy
400 pages
$25.95 HC
ISBN 0-9718659-4-9
Pub date: September 3, 2003

Paperback:
$12.95
ISBN: 0-9749609-4-2

The shocking book that caused a furor in Europe now comes to America ...

It was a horrible tragedy, but what if, hidden behind the story of the gruesome on-camera murder of journalist Daniel Pearl, was another, still darker story?

What if the people who murdered him weren't actually fanatic followers of Osama bin Laden?

What if he wasn't murder – as was universally assumed – because he was Jewish and American?

What if he was murdered because he was onto something?

In a groundbreaking book that combines a novelist's eye with riveting investigative journalism, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world's most esteemed writers, retraces Pearl's final steps through a murky Islamic underworld, suffused by "an odor of the apocalypse." The investigation plunges Lévy into his own heart of darkness – and a series of stunning revelations about who the real terrorists are.

About the author
Bernard-Henri Lévy is one of France's most famous philosophers and one of the bestselling writers in Europe. He is also one of the world's most preeminent journalists, having started his career as a war reporter for Combat, the famous underground newspaper founded by Camus during the Nazi occupation of France. Lévy covered the war between Pakistan and India over Bangladesh. Returning to Paris, he became famous as the dashing young founder of the New Philosophers group. His 1977 book Barbarism With a Human Face caused the kind of sensation that Camus' The Rebel incited in the 1950's, and since then, Lévy's novels and essays have continued to stir up such excitement that The Guardian recently noted he is "accorded the kind of adulation in France that most countries reserve for their rock stars."

Lévy has held several diplomatic positions with the French government, and written numerous books. In particular, he has written several books about the Islamic Middle East, and in 2002 he was appointed by the French government to head a fact-finding mission to Afghanistan in the wake of its war with the U.S.