THE THIRD WAR

For readers of Steve Coll’s GHOST WARS and Thomas E. Ricks’ FIASCO, this is a bold account of America’s covert war with Iran by chief foreign affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Jay Solomon.

Looking back to Iranian involvement in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, to the contemporary state of play and beyond, Solomon will illuminate a conflict that has been unfolding over decades, is reshaping the politics of the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Far East, and has come to dominate the American foreign policy agenda.
Based on access to sources on all sides, and focusing on a cast of characters operating at every level, Solomon’s account will examine how financial and cyber warfare, black ops, high stakes diplomacy, and old fashioned intelligence are each contributing to a multifarious proxy war that continues to increase in intensity – a war that, until very recently, the US has been losing.

For nearly a decade, Jay Solomon has been among the premier Wall Street Journal reporters covering international affairs. He has written from Asia, Africa and the Middle East, including stints in Indonesia, Seoul, India and Lebanon. The Wall Street Journal has nominated him for three Pulitzer Prizes during this period, including for his coverage of the 1998 overthrow of Indonesian President Suharto and North Korea’s nuclear program. This is his first book.