Isis Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery, and the Hellish Reality of Radical Islam Hardcover - 2015

From the jacket flap

Who Is ISIS?

The terror masters of the Islamic State are determined to get our attention. They've humiliated the Iraqi Army we trained and seized territory in Iraq that we had secured at the cost of so much American blood and treasure. They've beheaded American journalists on camera in a direct challenge to the power and resolve of the United States. And now ISIS is calling for "city wolves" across the United States to act on their dedication to the Islamic State's blood-drenched ideology and murder random Americans going about our daily business.

Who is ISIS? Where did it come from, and what is driving its successful campaign of murder and conquest? Our government and our media alike seemed to be blindsided by the Islamic State's blitzkrieg-like advance, which forced American troops back into Iraq. ISIS has conquered a territory roughly the size of the state of Indiana, rules over eight million terrorized souls, and has even revived the practice of legal slavery. And yet the true motivations, inner workings, and future plans of this terror state and its mysterious caliph seem almost as obscure as when ISIS first burst onto the world scene. Now veteran investigative reporter Erick Stakelbeck gets inside the story of the new caliphate and reveals just how clear and present a threat it is. In ISIS Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery, and the Hellish Reality of Radical Islam, you'll learn about:

Why the Islamic State appeals to Western youth in ways that Osama bin Laden never did
The differences between al Qaeda and its offshoot ISIS--and why ISIS is much more dangerous
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: how the U.S. actually held the future caliph of the Islamic State in a military prison in Iraq--but let him go
How ISIS-inspired terrorists have already attacked policemen in New York City and beheaded a grandmother in Oklahoma
The secrets to ISIS's success: a lethal mixture of brutal violence, battlefield prowess, fanatical ideology, and social-media savvy

Stakelbeck also lays out what's to come for the caliphate, outlining the next moves we can expect from ISIS in Syria, in Iraq's Anbar province, in Afghanistan--and in Europe and the United States. And he puts forward a strategy for defeating the Islamic State, including the steps we must take to protect America and defeat the newly resurgent global jihad.