Who Killed Daniel Pearl? - Softcover

Written by one of France's most esteemed intellectuals and journalists, this investigation into the murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl asserts that Pearl was murdered not necessarily because he was an American or Jewish, as previously assumed, but because he had uncovered links between al-Qaida terrorists and the Pakistani government. This gripping saga retraces Pearl's steps from India through Kandahar, Karachi, and the murky Islamic underground of a Pakistan draped in "an odor of the apocalypse." Told with great compassion for the heroic Pearl—whose widow and parents cooperated with and assisted the author—the story ultimately transcends the reporter's tragic ending with a ringing call to reexamine what Daniel Pearl died trying to uncover.

Bernard-Henri Lévy is one of France's most famous philosophers and a bestselling writer in Europe. He has held several diplomatic positions with the French government and is one of Europe's preeminent journalists, having started his career writing in the 1960s for Combat, the famous newspaper of the French Freedom Fighters started by Albert Camus during the German occupation of France in World War II. He is the author of Barbarism with a Human Face, War, Evil, and the End of History and What Good Are Intellectuals? In 2002, he was appointed by the French government to head a fact-finding mission to Afghanistan in the wake of Afghanistan's war with the United States.