In a ground-breaking book that combines a novelist's eye with rivettinginvestigative journalism, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world's mostesteemed writers, retraces Pearl's final steps through a murky Islamicunderworld, suffused by "an odour of the apocalypse." The investigationplunges Lévy into his own heart of darkness – and a series of stunningrevelations about who the real terrorists are.