The Way of the Strangers

The definitive account of the strategy, psychology, and fundamentalism driving the Islamic State, from the author of the groundbreaking Atlantic story 'What ISIS Really Wants.' 'Fascinating, terrifying, occasionally blackly humorous.'-Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, on 'What ISIS Really Wants'Tens of thousands of men and women have left comfortable, privileged lives to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-and kill for it. To them, its violence is beautiful and holy,