Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Hastings Michael
Title : The operators The wild and terrifying inside story of America's war in Afghanistan
Year : 2012

Link download : Hastings_Michael_-_The_operators.zip

Delta Bravo. APRIL 7, 2010, MILTON, VERMONT. I dialed the strange number with a sequence of digits too long to remember. The tone beeped in a distinctly foreign way. My call went through to Afghanistan. “Hello, Duncan? This is Michael Hastings from Rolling Stone.” I was in a house on Lake Champlain, smoking a cigarette on a screened-in porch with a view of the Adirondacks. I put the smoke out in an empty citronella candle, went inside, and grabbed a notebook from the kitchen counter. Duncan Boothby was the top civilian press advisor to General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding general of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Duncan and I had been e-mailing back and forth for a month to arrange a magazine profile I was planning to write about the general. I’d missed his call yesterday. He’d left a message. This was the first time I’d spoken to him. Duncan had a slight British accent, ambiguous, watered down. He told me I should come to Paris, France. ...