Red Line

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the harrowing true story of the mission to find and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and defeat ISIS - only to lose control of both. In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a civil war. Concerned that Assad might resort to chemical weapons, the international community warned that any such use would cross "a red line," warranting a military response. When Assad used sarin gas in Ghouta, killing hundreds, global leaders faced difficult decisions. Russia offered to store Syria's chemical weapons, leading to a race to remove and destroy them amid ongoing conflict and ISIS's destabilization efforts. Red Line is a character-driven narrative with eyewitness accounts, revealing how efforts to save Syrian lives became entangled in complex geopolitical and terrorist conflicts.