Scott Shane. Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone. New York, New York: Tim Duggan Books, September 15th, 2015. 416 pp.
This book tells the story of radical Islamists imam Anwar al-Awlaki and the US government war against him in the backdrop of the larger issue of President Obama’s war on terror using drones for targeted killing of Al Qaeda members. The author Scott Shane is a New York Times reporter who specializes in issues of national security. Shane does a masterful job in his research for this book and his work really shows. I don’t think there’s any other book length treatment that is as detailed concerning al-Awlaki like this book thus far. Other than passing news headlines most American don’t really know about al-Awlaki and the shadowy war the US pursued against him. The subject of this book is already interesting enough to be picked up and read.