How publishers must relish the contest to invent the most alarming title for books about AfPak, as that benighted region of the world is now known. Finally, they get to use all the big bazookas in the lexicon of scarewords. Recent examples of the genre include (in abbreviated form): Drift into Extremism, Deep Inside the World’s Most Frightening State, Deadly Embrace, Apocalyptic Realm and Descent into Chaos. Get the picture?

Literary Review

Jul 2012

Categories

Richard Cockett

A Country in Limbo

Model Island?

Killer in Manila

United by a Common Language?

Votes of No Consequence

Selfish Capital

Better Dead Than Red

Rohingya on the Edge

King of Kowloon

Ditching Democracy

Press Gang

War without End

Where Will It End?

The Other Refugee Crisis

Paradise Postponed

No Farewell to Arms

Their Island Story

Another Fine Mess

Many Hills to Climb

The Last Days of the Tamil Tigers