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Bernard-Henri Levy's Who Killed Daniel Pearl? offers a harrowing look at Pearl's life and tragic death wrought with a unique blending of journalism, novelist's imagination, and autobiography. Levy--an acclaimed French philosopher and bestselling author in Europe--in 2002 launched a one-year journey to understand Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl and the circumstances that led to his murder in Pakistan; the briskly paced result traces a thread from Pearl's killers through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and, possibly, to Al-Quaida. In building his case, Levy takes none of the news stories on face value. At great personal risk, he follows the same steps that Pearl walked to the very farm house where the journalist was killed. He seems to question everything and provides bearing witness as the truth-telling reportage required in a nation like Pakistan that "has lost even the very idea of what a free press could be." But Levy does not let his interrogative mind crush the emotional weight of his subject. He questions himself frequently, undermines his own assumptions, and continually returns to the man, Pearl: "a man who was ordinary and exemplary, normal and admirable." Ultimately, the book is a powerful work of compassion as much as a valuable bit of detective work. It is about a good man who died too soon as well as the terrible alliances that could perform such an act against him. Levy does not want Pearl's lessons to be lost to the world. He, like Pearl, seeks a "gentle Islam" that will resist the ring of blood and hate in what Levy calls "the beginning of the grand struggle of the century." --Patrick O’Kelley |
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Great Adventure
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| I picked up this book at a used bookstore in Ojai. Because I knew Levy was a philosopher, I expected the book to be about the meaning of Pearl's execution. It turned out to be a page-turner adventure story about Levy's investigation, with stops in Karachi, Islamabad, Kabul, Kandahar, Dubai, Delhi, and Los Angeles and a huge and often shady cast of characters, many with multiple aliases. Ultimately Levy's investigation leads to a lot of conjecture about who was responsible for what and the purpose of the murder. It would be almost impossible for all of the conjecture to be true, but just as impossible for all of it to be false. An amazing work, regardless. |
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