Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags comes the thrilling unknown story of America's mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State

In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When secret intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons, President Obama warned that doing so would cross “a red line.” Assad did it anyway, bombing...