On January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. They took the lives of twelve men and women, but they called for one man by name: "Charb": Stéphane Charbonnier, editor in chief. He had finished this book just two days before his murder on the very issues at the heart of the attacks: blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the necessary courage of satirists.

"A posthumous manifesto by the editor in chief of Charlie Hebdo." -- Dust jacket. "Originally published in France as Lettre aux escrocs de l'islamophobie qui font le jeu des racistes, April 2015." -- Title page verso.