Greene is not one of the 13 yet the tricky questions surrounding her case are pertinent. Moaveni profiles 13 women, including Shamima Begum, who left their homes in the UK, Germany and other countries to join Isis. So twisted is her story no one can tell if it is a “coup for the FBI for sneaking in an agent into the heartland of Isis” or a victory for the terrorists. The occasion is the controversy over the former FBI agent Daniela Greene, who fell in love with and married the Islamic State fighter she had been assigned to investigate. “W e are already a long time in the bedrooms of terrorists,” a German security official is quoted as saying in Azadeh Moaveni’s superb book, longlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize.
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