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Maigret and His Dead Man
Maigret and His Dead Man | Georges Simenon
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An alarming and enlightening first-hand account of what's really going on behind the borders of the Islamic State. ISIS, IS, the Islamic State. The name is chilling. The images are horrific. This is a group that chops the heads off journalists - and yet one, the German Jürgen Todenhöfer, went out of his way to get an invitation to visit ISIS fighters in Mosul to ask them to explain their beliefs. This book is the result of his conversation. My Journey into the Heart of Terror: Ten Days in the Islamic Stateshows how the organisation grew from its al-Qaeda roots and takes a harsh look at the West's role in its past and today. Only by understanding, Todenhöfer believes, can we move forward and combat ISIS's radical, violent interpretation of Islam and the terror and destruction it brings.
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"Civilised men fear wild creatures, especially wild creatures of their own kind who remind them of life in the primeval forests of past ages."

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Despite some unfortunate anti-immigrant sentiment and Simenon's strange habit of presenting a woman with one breast exposed, this is one of the strongest Maigret stories I've read so far. A little longer than the others, which perhaps explains the deeper characterisation of the inspector, for which the story is the better. The opening really hooked me in, and the unexpected plot development, which could have been jarring, was expertly handled.