As a reporter, she is particularly remembered for her work in war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq and most recently Chechnya, as well as for her reports on the September 11 attacks in the United States. "The Bookseller of Kabul", her second, bestselling book, is an account of the time she spent living with an Afghan family in Kabul after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Her other books include ' which describes the three months she spent in Iraq in the build-up to the U.S.-led invasion in 2003; ', an account of the time she spent in Chechnya after the war; and "One of Us: The Story of Anders Breveik and the Massacre in Norway" (2015), which is the basis for the Netflix drama, "22 July".