The inside story of Gadaffi's regime, from the award-winning Channel 4 and CNN journalist. Hilsum traces the history of his strange regime from its beginnings, when Gadaffi had looks, charisma and popular appeal, to its paranoid, corrupt and final state. At the heart of her book is a brilliant narrative of Libyan people overcoming fear and disillusionment and finding the strength to rebel, and Hilsum follows five of them through months of terror and tragedy.