mumbai terrorist attacks, mumbai, india, 2008

David Headley, the American-Pakistani also known as Daood Gilani, lived a double life. One day he would stroll through Central Park in his tailored Armani suit as a true New Yorker, and the next he would browse in the bazaar in Lahore wearing traditional Pakistani clothes. Born in 1960, the son of an American mother and Pakistani father, with one blue eye and one brown, Headley grew up between East and West. He was attracted to both worlds, even working as an informant for the US government, until one day he found he had to choose between the place of his birth and a radical form of Islam preaching global jihad. This is the disturbing story of the mastermind behind the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people. Two months later he flew to Copenhagen to plan another act of terror with the help of al-Qaeda sleeper cells in Europe.

On the night of November 26, 2008, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout Mumbai, including the Taj-Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world's most exclusive luxury hotels. For sixty-eight hours, hundreds were held hostage as shots rang out and an enormous fire raged. In the end, thirty-one people were dead and hundreds more injured. Courageous actions of guests and staff prevented a much higher death toll.