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A dark journey into a fanatical underworld

To fully investigate the extremist threat, Julia Ebner went undercover — to join neo-Nazi rallies, and take hacking lessons from Isis

  • Going Dark: The Secret Social Life of Extremists

    Julia Ebner

    Bloomsbury, pp. 342, £16

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