Completed just days before her assassination on December 27, 2007 at an election rally at Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Reconciliation is former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's clear-eyed assessment of the nature of Pakistan's relationship with the West, with Islam and with extremism. In this important new book, Ms Bhutto demonstrates that extremism is not inherent to Islam, but that various factors, including some policies of the West, have empowered Islamic fundamentalists and are responsible for the current battle for the hearts, minds and bodies of the Umma (the Islamic nation around the world). Reconciliation argues that democracy, economic development, moderation and modernity are the greatest threats to international terrorism. Ms Bhutto pledged to work with the United States and the West to ensure Pakistan ceased to be the petrie dish of international radicals and re-establish its bona fides as a realistic and effective moderate alternative for one billion Muslims around the world. Simon & Schuster will be publishing Reconciliation on 12 February.