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Winter in Kandahar
by Steven E. Wilson
from Hailey-Grey Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• LOVED IT!
  If you like The Kite Runner and 1000 Splendid Suns, you'll love this book. It's so good I couldn't put it down.

• Beautiful story of love, friendship, betrayal and loyalty
  The book starts off slow but once it gets going, you cannot put it down. This book takes you to the hidden caves of Afghanistan, CIA headquarters in Washington DC, red light district of Amsterdam, canals of Venice and back to the mountains of South Asia.. a truly amazing story of love, honor, pride, friendship and betrayal.

• Couldn't put this one down!
  One of the Best . . . from someone who travelled Afghanistan in the 70s.
  This book of fiction is filled with suspense, current events of war/terrorism, courage and romance all rolled into a superbly crafted story that was next to impossible to put down. The descriptions of Afghanistan were much as I remembered where, on highways, men would just get out of a vehicle and start walking towards the far mountains into what-appeared-to-be nowhere. The Taliban throughout the Khyber Pass were just as... more info

• Very believable Afghanistan thriller
  This is both a believable international thriller and a scary novel about the ethnic and religious hatreds that plague Afghanistan and the world. I do not know how an eye doctor from California and Minnesota has done it, but the characters and locales it describes seem very authentic. It is a very good read. I leave it to other readers to decide whether the ending is hopeful or pessimistic about easing those ethnic hatreds.

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