num_pages: 480
description: Anyone who has read Mark Bowden’s Black Hawk Down or Killing Pablo knows that he is capable of putting us in the heat of a story in a way few writers can. Road Work gathers the best of his award-winning writing, from his breakout stories for the Philadelphia Inquirer to his influential pieces in the 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.
language: English
title: Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts
titlecomplete: Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts
genres: Africa, Crime, Military Fiction, Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Journalism
ratings_count: 416
publisher: Penguin Books