Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Maps
Prologue: A Man of Enterprise and Genius
PART ONE
OCCUPATION
1. A Seeker of Manuscripts
2. A Wide Extended Blank
3. Hell Is Not Far Away
4. The Fourth Traveller
5. Al-Qaeda to the Rescue
6. It Shall Be Mine
7. Ismael’s List
PART TWO
DESTRUCTION
8. The Armchair Explorer
9. A Headless Horseman
10. The Pope of Timbuktu
11. Secret Agents
PART THREE
LIBERATION
12. Lives of the Scholars
13. The Terrible Twosome
14. King Leopold’s Paperweight
15. Auto-da-Fé
16. Chronicle of the Researcher
17. An Indiana Jones Moment in Real Life!
18. Manuscript Fever
19. The Myth Factory
Epilogue
Photos
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Photo Credits
About the Author
