The Warlord's Son

By Dan Fesperman,

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The sun did not rise in Peshawar. It seeped - an egg-white smear that brightened the eastern horizon behind a veil of smoke, exhaust and dust. The smoke rose from burning wood, cow dung and old tires, meager flames of commerce for kebab shops and bakers, metal-smiths and brick kilns.…

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1 author picked The Warlord's Son as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This fabulous story is more or less historical fiction adventure.

From the first page when a Pakistani village wakes up, the exotic tone is set. Add a burned-out war correspondent and a young Afghan man with a wild, dangerous family steeped in warring traditions and you get a tale like no other. Crossing into Afghanistan for them is fraught with peril, suspicion, deceit, and suspense as both risk their lives in separate agendas. Loved it.

A slice of a time period in Afghanistan which is in a state of flux after the Russians retreat and before the U.S. gets involved.…

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