In Extremis

An inspiring biography of the war reporter killed in Syria in 2012, whose life inspired the feature film A Private War**, starring Rosamund Pike as Colvin.** A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Finalist for the Costa Biography Award Long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Best Book of 2018, Esquire and Foreign Policy An Amazon Best Book of November, the Guardian Bookshop Book of November, and one of the Evening Standard**’s Books to Read in November** When Marie Colvin was killed in an artillery attack in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost a fearless and iconoclastic war correspondent who covered the most significant global calamities of her lifetime. In Extremis, written by her fellow reporter Lindsey Hilsum, is a thrilling investigation into .......