Author Description

The Khyber Pass is the principal route through the great mountain boderlands betweenIndia and Central Asia-and the path of invasion for generations of conquerors. Theregion remains a graveyard of foreign armies-just a few years after the Soviet Unionwas defeated by the Afghan Mujahideen, thousands of soldiers from the United States,Britain and other nations are struggling to control Afghanistan. Today the Khyber regionis a lawless place of gunsmiths and drug markets, and the hideout of terrorists. Theauthor's own travels in this true frontier territory bring this epic history into the twenty-fi rst century