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