James Hider
Praise for The Spiders of Allah
This sort of informed but subjective account of the frontlines of conflict in the Middle East is not simply rubbernecking, it's required reading
Time Out
Hider's voice is incisive and rich in the human detail that only first-hand experience bestows. An essential work for anyone wishing to understand the swirling machinations of Iraq, its people and its war
Antony Loyd, author of My War Gone By, I Miss it So
At once a terrifying insight into the 'crack-cocaine of fanatical fundamentalism' and a blackly humorous narrative of a foreign correspondent's growing sense of bafflement and alienation
Chris Ayres, author of WAR REPORTING FOR COWARDS
This sort of informed but subjective account of the frontlines of conflict in the Middle East is not simply rubbernecking, it's required reading
Time Out
Hider's voice is incisive and rich in the human detail that only first-hand experience bestows. An essential work for anyone wishing to understand the swirling machinations of Iraq, its people and its war
Antony Loyd, author of My War Gone By, I Miss it So
At once a terrifying insight into the 'crack-cocaine of fanatical fundamentalism' and a blackly humorous narrative of a foreign correspondent's growing sense of bafflement and alienation
Chris Ayres, author of WAR REPORTING FOR COWARDS
This sort of informed but subjective account of the frontlines of conflict in the Middle East is not simply rubbernecking, it's required reading
Time Out
Hider's voice is incisive and rich in the human detail that only first-hand experience bestows. An essential work for anyone wishing to understand the swirling machinations of Iraq, its people and its war
Antony Loyd, author of My War Gone By, I Miss it So
At once a terrifying insight into the 'crack-cocaine of fanatical fundamentalism' and a blackly humorous narrative of a foreign correspondent's growing sense of bafflement and alienation
Chris Ayres, author of WAR REPORTING FOR COWARDS