In July 2018 on a bleak highway in the mountains of Tajikistan, an area known as "the roof of the world," Lauren Geoghegan and Jay Austin were brutally murdered by five ISIS terrorists. They were both Georgetown University graduates who had quit their well-paying Washington, D.C. jobs looking for a different kind of American Dream. Pieced together from their travel blog, social media posts, interviews, and media coverage of their murder, author William Elliott Hazelgrove creates a complete, narrative retelling of Jay and Lauren's story. Evil on the Roof of the World combines travel adventure with true crime elements, the difficult and meaningful experiences they found on their journey, and what led up to the attack. This is the story of a couple who went off the grid to find their great adventure only to have it end in tragedy.
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