Poppy Life, Death and Addiction Inside Afghanistan's Opium Trade
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An in-depth investigation into the heroin trade in Afghanistan—including who runs it, who's profiting, and who's lives are caught in the balance
Afghanistan has become the world's largest producer of opium and its offshoot, heroin—all under the noses of Western civil and military stakeholders. At the nexus of the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, truth is as elusive and fragile as the new democracy itself, now on the brink of being consumed by an expanding mire of chaos. Stranger in a strange land, Gregor Salmon entered the war-torn country alone and spent eight months investigating Afghanistan's dependence on poppy, investigating questions such as: Who depends on poppy profits? And who pays the ultimate cost? Along the way he encountered Afghans whose lives were intimately tied to the trade: farmers, harvesters, eradicators, smugglers, police, doctors, addicts, warlords, gun-runners, politicians—even a pop-song loving Taliban commander. The result is a tense, fascinating, and deeply moving journey along the narcotics trail, and a story about keeping your sanity in a senseless world.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781741666564 |
Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
Pub date: | 01 Jul 2009 |
DEWEY: | 363.4509581 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Number of pages: | 441 |
Weight: | 630g |
Height: | 233mm |
Width: | 154mm |
Spine width: | 36mm |