Following on from Coll's Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, this takes the story of America's grim involvement in the affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2016.
Steve Coll is dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. His major books include Private Empire, The Bin Ladens and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars. He is a staff writer on The New Yorker.
Every assertion is carefully sourced and checked. This book is in
the finest traditions of American investigative journalism. Coll is
the thinking man's Michael Wolff.
*The Times*
A masterful and entertaining account ... the story is delivered
with a literary prowess that has been absent in previous western
accounts of America's longest running war
*Guardian*
Spectacular ... Directorate S has a cast of characters that makes
Bourne movies pale in comparison
*Financial Times*
Impressively detailed, stylishly crafted and authoritative... as
gloomy as it is compelling
*Economist*
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