Allah's Torch
Subtitle: A Report from Behind the Scenes in Asia's War on Terror
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: December 27, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780060561116
Subjects: Islamic studies; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Political Terrorism; Islamic Government; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; ASIA; Asia - General; Islam - General; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Asia - Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Islamic fundamentalism
First sentence: The moon was shining over the harbor at Makassar, the storied old spice port nine hundred miles east of Jakarta, when Norman and I stood in the steamy night, staring up at the huge steel flanks of the interisland passenger liner the M.V. Bukit Siguntang.