In Extremis: The Life Of War Correspondent Marie Colvin

Six years after being killed in the ruins of the Syrian rebel town of Homs, Marie Colvin is brought to life again in a candid biography of one of the great war reporters of our time. Us-born Colvin’s career took her to some of the worst of late 20th and early 21st century hotspots, providing plenty of substance for this book and the imminent film of her life. But this deeply personal account of the

Sunday Times writer by her friend, the Channel 4 correspondent Lindsey Hilsum, isn’t all derring-do.

Hilsum writes with both deep affection and a friend’s candidness to present us with a totally credible subject. Drawing on Colvin’s own extensive diaries, she shows us someone whose skill, nerve, energy and drive in a war zone rightly brought plaudits but whose personal life was often also a chaotic battlefield.