Dining with terrorists

METRO

'Intelligent, enlightening and sobering, Rees's book should be required reading.’

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Time Out

‘Our destination is a workable definition of terrorism but the pleasure is very much in the traveling…related with a punchy verve that shows the author to be as fine a writer as he is an intrepid a film maker. One of Rees’s most enduring qualities is that the possibility of having his throat slit has no discernible effect on his appetite.’

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Clare Short, former Cabinet Minister

'It points the way to resolving the conflicts which are tearing the world apart. It is a most important as well as a readable book and highly recommended for those who are looking for a way out of the present quagmire.’

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Sydney Morning Herald

‘Timely and sobering…This is profound meditation on the nature of militants and terror.’

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Naom Chomsky

‘An astonishing tour de force’

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British Journalism Review

‘This stimulating, long overdue book…In a world of fear and confusion this book is a welcome sane voice. This thoughtful, controversial book should be compulsory reading for every editor, journalist and politician – before it is too late.’

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Times Literary Supplement

‘The passage of his journey through the terror world is at once entertaining and thought-provoking. His erstwhile colleague Martin Bell speaks of committing useful journalism. Rees does just that’

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Financial Times

‘An intensely readable book, a slide show of intriguing interviews and encounters’

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Newsweek

‘His account should trouble anyone who believes Washington's enemies in the war on terror are easily identified’

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Sunday Business Post

‘An insightful book that exposes the sometimes farcical contradictions between the use and abuse of the word ‘terrorist' and the blood that is spilt out of sight of the endless war of words’

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Sunday Telegraph

‘The most exhaustive expose of the ideas of the Noam Chomsky/Michael Moore school ...he is a good reporter and a congenial gourmet'

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Gillian Slovo, Observer

‘Each chapter… needs savouring.’

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Birmingham Evening Mail

‘Dining With Terrorists is an occasionally uncomfortable and always fascinating read’

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The Hindu, India

‘Whether you agree with him or not he makes interesting reading’

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The Daily Yomiura, Japan

‘Rees reminds us that those who take up the gun are not the faceless, raving maniacs that mainstream media and government propogandists portray them as, but human beings with thoughts, feelings and desires….Rees has met the enemy, and he is us.’

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‘The book brings us close to those behind the catch-all ‘terrorist’ label.’

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The Guardian

'This outstanding book recounts a hair-raising odyssey…the vivid writing links his interviews with smiling killers into a kind of globe-trotting adventure story, as readable as it is informative’

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