Ghost Wars

the Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll tells the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, from its covert programme against Soviet troops from 1979-89, to the rise of the Taliban and the emergence of bin Laden, to the secret efforts vy CIA officers and their agents…