The Caliphate: Inside Daesh

Salim Husman is a university professor with a dark past as an insurgent trying to rebuild his life in France. When his family is trapped in Islamic State territory, the only way to rescue them is a Mephistophelian pact: infiltrate the Islamic State, taking advantage of his contacts in the CIA and Iraq to provide the most inaccessible target.

Thousands of miles away from this scenario is Iris Knowles, a drone pilot. From a shelter in Nevada, Knowles fights her part of a relentless war on terror every day, while clinging tooth and nail to what's left of her career, her family and her very sanity.

Fran Gonzalez is a veteran legionnaire facing the final stage of his career in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Locked in his own code, he prepares for one last mission and contemplates the approaching end of the only thing that means anything to him.

The Caliphate is a vibrant thriller set against the backdrop of the war against the Islamic State. On the three axes of this story, the author of Echo Sierra, Patriots or Sahel takes us through the inner workings of a new form of remote warfare that is defining the way conflicts are fought in the 21st century.