"We Love Death as You Love Life": Britain's Suburban Terrorists

Interesting and accessible enough to keep the attention of the general reader, this book will help an international audience understand the story of UK Islamist terrorism and will provide experts with sound analysis and the chance to read for the first time the full story in one volume. Pantucci avoids the tendency of more politically biased commentators to blame the terrorists' radicalisation on either British foreign policy, poverty and islamophobia or radical foreign preachers, "an evil ideology" and multiculturalism. Instead, through in-depth research into the personalities involved in the UK terrorist plots, the author shows that no single one of these explanations is sufficient but that all have played a role in motivating some of Britain's suburban mujahedeen.--Innes Bowen, BBC

Raffaello Pantucci is an Associate Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King's College, London. He has worked on questions around terrorism and radicalization in London and Washington, and has been published widely in both the media and the academic and specialist press. This is his first book.