Michelle Shephard

Here’s Michelle’s full interview with George Stroumboulopoulos:

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Canadian Interviews talked with Michelle in December about Decade of Fear:

There may be brilliant and imaginative novelists working in Canada today, but it can surely be said that not one could invent anything quite like the tale Michelle Shephard tells in her captivating new book, Decade of Fear. The Toronto Star journalist takes readers on a modern-day odyssey, from New York City in the days following September 11, 2001 to some of the most troubled and perplexing places on earth, including Mogadishu, Somalia and the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison.

• Read the complete interview here

Here are some excerpts and reviews of Michelle’s new book, Decade of Fear:

• Harper’s Magazine
• The National
• A podcast with ACLU
• Waq al-Waq
• Jihadica
• CBC’s As It Happens
• JSource
• Edmonton Journal
• Ottawa Citizen
• Toronto Star – an excerpt
• Foreign Policy – an excerpt

Decade of Fear is on the longlist for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, one of Canada’s largest literary non-fiction prizes.

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“Michelle Shephard is one of the great national security reporters of our time. In this age of ‘journalists’ embedded in their air-conditioned offices, she is a rare exception: a real reporter”
-Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army

“Michelle Shephard has delivered a wide-ranging, well-written, witty account of the war that began on 9/11 that is also a serious, knowledgeable and empathetic journey …She takes the reader on quite a ride. My advice: Go along!”
—Peter L. Bergen, author of The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda and Holy War, Inc

“Reading Decade of Fear is essential to understanding the post-9/11 world. … If you care about the world you live in and can only read one book this year, this should be it.”
—Marina Nemat, author of Prisoner of Tehran and After Tehran

“Decade of Fear is so thrilling and terrific, I wish it wasn’t true. You know any book that opens with an ex-CIA director using beer nuts to illustrate torture techniques is going to be wild, and it only gets more gripping from there. Michelle Shephard is a rock’m-sock’m storyteller and an absolutely heroic reporter.”
—Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“Through her outstanding reporting, Michelle recounts how the ‘war on terror’ has yet to be won and bears witness to the consequences of a decade in which justice was not blind, and the world was only viewed through the prism of fear.”
—Lt. General (ret) Senator Romeo Dallaire, author of Shake Hands with the Devil and They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children

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