And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades In The Middle EastNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Gripping reading an astute, fast paced overview[Engel] gives us sharp, unnerving snapshots. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Based on two decades of reporting, NBCs chief foreign correspondents riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up closesometimes dangerously so. When he was just twenty three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with