"The Fertile Soil of Jihad reads like a mystery thriller."—Gary R. Hobbin, Military Review
“Patrick Dunleavy’s important new book offers glimpses of the determined efforts, difficulties, failures, frustrations, and feuds that characterize efforts to combat prison recruitment. The Fertile Soil of Jihad is a major contribution to our overall understanding of radicalization and terrorist recruitment.”—Brian Michael Jenkins, senior adviser to the president, RAND Corporation
“The Fertile Soil of Jihad is outstanding. Patrick Dunleavy takes the reader deep inside prison into the terrorists’ minds and shows what can happen when inmates and radical Islam come together. His book is a tribute to the men and women in corrections, as well as their local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence colleagues, who work tirelessly to protect our country in a post-9/11 world.”—Frank Straub, director of public safety, City of Indianapolis
“An insider’s look at the shadowy and complex world of radicalism inside prison walls and how it extends from the cellblock to the outside world. Patrick Dunleavy has turned an investigator’s eye on a network that stretches from New York to Palestine, Yemen, Afghanistan, and beyond.”—J. M. Berger, editor of Intelwire.com and author of Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam
“Patrick Dunleavy’s true tale of intrigue, betrayal, deception, violence, and unparalleled detective work reads like a Robert Ludlum novel. It is also a tale for our times, one that every American should read, illustrating the ways in which radical jihadism can easily—and secretly—metastasize within our own penal institutions into vast terrorist cells that threaten our very existence. This is one of those books that will enthrall you, enrage you, and engage you from the moment you pick it up.”—Steven Emerson, executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism and author of American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us
