Over the rainbow
By: Paul Pickering
Publisher: New York; Simon & Schuster
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780857205919; 9781849830171
Subjects: Americans; Fiction; Air pilots
Description: It is September 2009, Ramadan and the eve of Afghanistan's first 'democratic' elections when young American Malone, pilot for an aid airline, does Fatima Hamza the favour of flying her out of Kabul to Bamiyan, while his surgeon wife Kim heads south to Kandahar. The beguiling, Oxford-educated Pashtun Fatima has left Pakistan to rediscover the country she comes from, she tells him, to retrace the places that were important to her spy-chief father, ex-military man and writer with a disturbing gift of prophecy.