Award winning investigative reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. In his book Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, he explains how the zeal of Zarqawi, a terrorist mastermind, and the strategic mistakes of Presidents Bush and Obama led to ISIS controlled territory in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on unique high level access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Warrick dramatically tells the story of the rise of today’s most dangerous extremist threat.
