In the wake of the news that the 9/11 hijackers had lived in Europe, journalist Ian Johnson wondered how such a radical group could sink roots into Western soil. Most accounts reached back twenty years, to U.S. support of Islamist fighters in Afghanistan. But Johnson dug deeper, to the start of the Cold War, uncovering the untold story of a group of ex-Soviet Muslims who had defected to Germany during World War II. There, they had been fashioned into a well-oiled anti-Soviet propaganda machine. As that war ended and the Cold War began, West German and U.S. intelligence agents vied for control of this influential group, and at the centre of the covert tug of war was a quiet mosque in Munich - radical Islam's first beachhead in the West. Culled from an array of sources, including newly declassified documents, A MOSQUE IN MUNICH interweaves the stories of several key players: a Nazi scholar turned postwar spymaster; key Muslim leaders across the globe, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood; and naive CIA men eager to fight communism with a new weapon, Islam. A rare ground-level look at Cold War spying and a revelatory account of the West's first, disastrous encounter with radical Islam, A Mosque in Munich is as captivating as it is crucial to our understanding the mistakes we are still making in our relationship with Islamists today.

伊恩•约翰逊 Ian Johnson

中文名张彦，普利策奖得主，曾任《华尔街日报》中国分社和德国分社社长。现为《纽约时报》《纽约客》《纽约书评》等媒体供稿。除了宏观的经济议题，长期以来，宗教信仰议题一直是伊恩•约翰逊的写作主题，目前他一共出版了三本专著:《野草》(Wild Grass , 2004),《慕尼黑的清真寺》(A Mosque in Munich ,2010)和《中国之魂》(The Souls of China ,2017)。