![]() ![]() It's a highly engaging account that should please the curious and experts alike. Indeed, in the talented hands of Mazzetti, a Pulitzer Prize-winning national security reporter for the New York Times, America's pursuit of terrorists through the deserts, mountains and Byzantine politics of the Islamic world, now in its second decade, sometimes reads like "A Game of Thrones," with its warring princes and fantastical demons. Out in the field, at the tip of the spear, the weapons are spies, drones, algorithms and cash. But in the post-9/11 shadow war against al Qaeda and its affiliates, it is presidents, prime ministers, warlords, kings and generals who wield the knives, stabbing each other in the back. Sure, the badges of most special operations units feature a dagger, the symbol for stealth, if not hand-to-hand fighting. ![]() The title of Mark Mazzetti's new book, "The Way of the Knife," is a little misleading. ![]() By Mark Mazzetti (The Penguin Press 381 pages $29.95) ![]()
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