Buzkashi is portrayed in several books, both fiction and non-fiction. It is shown in Steve Berry's book "The Venetian Betrayal", and it is briefly mentioned in the Khaled Hosseini book "The Kite Runner". Buzkashi was the subject of a book called "Horsemen of Afghanistan" by French photojournalists Roland and Sabrina Michaud. Gino Strada wrote a book named after the sport (with the spelling Buskashì) in which he tells about his life as surgeon in Kabul in the days after the 9-11 strikes. P.J. O'Rourke also mentions the game in discussions about Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Foreign Policy section of Parliament of Whores, and Rory Stewart devotes a few sentences to it in "The Places in Between".