Kara Kush
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Idries Shah.
Publisher: Stein and Day
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 575
Subjects: Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 -- Fiction
Description: A riveting and fast-paced novel in which "Kara Kush"--Or "The Eagle," as the Afghan-born, American-schooled, Adam Durany becomes known-returns to his homeland to lead his people against the Soviet atrocities and communist infiltration that threaten to annihilate his country and its dreams of modernization. Adam, convinced that a resistance movement is imperative, rallies his followers, the ill-equipped patriots, to fight back.