Title: Kara Kush
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.
Subjects: Fiction, History, New York Times reviewed, Afghanistan, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure
Places: Afghanistan
Time periods: Soviet occupation, 1979-1989