In the shadows of the Islamic State

The extraordinary testimony of the French woman who joined the Islamic State and survived a journey through hell. Sophie Kasiki was working as a social worker in the suburbs of Paris when three of the young men she helped left France to join the Islamic State in Syria. Soon, those she affectionately called "the boys" would come looking for her again. At first, Sophie naively hoped to convince them to return, but what would happen was exactly the opposite. In *In the Shadows of the Islamic State*, Sophie Kasiki recounts, with profound emotion, all the terror she experienced in the city of Raqqa, the heartland of the Islamic State in Syria.