Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts

Product Description <br/>Anyone who has read Mark Bowden’s<br/>Black Hawk Down or<br/>Killing Pablo knows that he is capable of putting us in the heat of a story in a way few writers can.<br/>Road Work gathers the best of his award-winning writing, from his breakout stories for the<br/>Philadelphia Inquirer to his influential pieces in the<br/>Atlantic on the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Whether traveling to Zambia, where a team of antipoachers fights to save the black rhino, to Guantánamo Bay to expose the controversial ways America is fighting its war on terror, or to a small town in Rhode Island to penetrate the largest cocaine ring in history, Bowden takes us down rough roads previously off limits—and gives us another gripping read.<br/> About the Author <br/>Mark Bowden is a national correspondent for the<br/>Atlantic. His books include<br/>Killing Pablo and<br/>Black Hawk Down.<br/> Review <br/>"Killing Pablo: 'Riveting' Sunday Times Summer Reading; 'A remarkable opus of investigative journalism' The Times; 'Powerfully written and well researched' Independent on Sunday; 'A psychotic safari.' Daily Mail; 'A well researched and staggering account.' Time Out; 'A brilliant reconstruction... rich with authentic complexity' Evening Standard"<br/> From the Back Cover <br/>"Bowden’s range is broad. . . . With heartbreaking detail, [these pieces] reveal his most effective reporting tool: empathy."<br/> —<br/>Entertainment Weekly (A)<br/><br/> "Mark Bowden is a master of narrative journalism."<br/> —<br/>The New York Times Book Review