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God is never the real reason
It is always the human being — fear, power, manipulation. We follow the trail of motive across centuries.
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Years investigating violent crime
The Author
On September 11, 2001, I had no answer.
I was a violent crime investigator with twenty-five years of experience. I had understood why people kill — for money, for power, for revenge.
But in the name of God? For the first time in my career, I had no answer. My children were sleeping upstairs. And I realised I wouldn't know how to explain it to them either.
Four years later, at the age of forty, I enrolled at a Faculty of Theology. This book is the result.
It is not a political book. It does not attack any religion. It is an investigation — from Abraham through the Crusades, colonialism, the Holocaust, the rise of political Islam, 9/11, and ISIS. Written the way an investigator asks questions: Who? Why? How? And what now?
