A letter reaches exiled journalist Can Dündar. The sender: Serkan Kurtuluş, a Turkish inmate in a prison in Buenos Aires. He identifies himself as Dündar’s would-be assassin – and now promises to share explosive information.
The backdrop: After exposing a covert arms shipment from Turkey to a banned Islamist group in Syria, Dündar earned the fury of President Erdoğan. Sentenced to 27 years in prison, he narrowly survived an assassination attempt directly outside the courthouse before going into exile in Germany.
Dündar travels to meet the man who once tried to kill him. Threatened with deportation to Turkey, Kurtuluş now fears for his own life. Through him, and in the course of further research, Dündar uncovers a network of secret deals between democratic and autocratic governments and their links to organized crime and terrorist organizations.
An unbelievable story, as gripping as a thriller – but disturbingly real. A harrowing glimpse into the dark depths of political abuse of power.
