I'm very thankful to have been sent a copy of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by the lovely Angela at Wunderkind PR. This book was originally published in 2011 under the title The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan (the new title is indeed catchier and took me longer than I'd care to ad...
Ok, ocassionally amusing. I'm up for the wacky times of foreigners in a war zone as much as anyone, but this one was too charitable to it's cast of characters by half and riddled with broad, not-unflattering cliches. ("We were addicted to war...only danger made me feel alive...the suburbs suddenly s...
I wanted to read this book because I thought it was going to give me a look into how people in Afghanistan and Pakistan viewed the war on terror while Barker from around when it started to when Barker left. There are occasional glimpses, far too few and far apart but that's not what the book is abo...