A MIGHTY HEART
The brave life and death of my
husband, Danny Pearl
by MARIANE
PEARL
New softcover book, 280 pages, published 2007.
In A Mighty Heart, an
astonishingly courageous woman tells the terrifying and unforgettable story of
her husband's life and death. For five weeks the world watched and worried about
Danny Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped in Karachi,
Pakistan. And then came the news of his shocking and brutal murder. Danny's
reasons for being in Karachi, the complete story of his abduction, and the
intense effort to find him are told here for the first time.
Mariane and Danny Pearl were
working in South Asia, as they had been elsewhere in the world, because they
believed that good reporting is essential to our understanding of ethnic and
religious conflict around the globe. They knew the risks inherent in the life
they chose and took conscientious precautions.
The courage of Danny and Mariane is
extraordinary, yet we are dependent on brave journalists everywhere to produce
news coverage that educates us. There are many mighty hearts in the Pearl story,
many brave people who helped Mariane in her search for her abducted husband.
This account is riveting, illuminating, and heartbreaking. We learn, through the
urgent tracing of Danny's last movements, about the terrorists' methods,
ideologies, and ruthless violence. As soon as Pearl was discovered missing, a
global effort began to locate him and identify his captors -- a race against the
clock that spanned the dangerous fissures of culture and politics and language
that separate Islamic terrorists and America.
Only one person can tell this
story: Danny Pearl's wife, Mariane, for it was she who initiated and helped
direct the urgent search for her husband and she who can paint a moving portrait
of a marriage built on the ideals of truth, justice, and love. Intensely
suspenseful despite the known outcome, uplifting at the last, A Mighty Heart is
essential reading for our time.
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