{"product_id":"book-fvvl","title":"Looking for the Enemy","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Bette Dam was one of the very few Western journalists to gain real access to the Taliban movement' - \u003cem style=\"\" font-size: letter-spacing:\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Bette Dam's biography\/hunt for the truth behind the figure of Mullah Omar will change everything you thought you know about Afghanistan.' - Victor Blue, fellow at the New America Foundation, photographer for \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Bette Dam is the most knowledgeable scholar on Mullah Omar.' - Carter Malkasian, former adviser to American military commanders in Afghanistan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Dam's richly detailed study, based on years spent tracking the Taliban as an investigative journalist, exposes many of the inner workings of the group and highlights how little the West truly understands about how the movement functions.' - \u003cem\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Bette Dam is one of the most talented researchers I know.' - Anand Gopal, author of Pulitzer-nominated \u003cem\u003eNo Good Men Among the Living\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor twenty years, the Taliban was the number one enemy of Western forces in Afghanistan. But it was an enemy that they knew little about, and about whose founder and leader, Mullah Omar, they knew even less.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArmed with only a fuzzy black-and-white photo of the man, investigative journalist Bette Dam decided to track down the reclusive Taliban chief a decade back. But in the course of what had seemed an almost impossible job, she got to know the Taliban inside out, realized how dangerously misinformed the global forces fighting it were, and made a startling discovery about the elusive Omar's whereabouts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe outcome of a five-year-long pursuit, \u003cem\u003eLooking for the Enemy\u003c\/em\u003e is a woman journalist's epic story that takes the reader deep into the dangerous mountains and war-ravaged valleys of Afghanistan as it throws up several unknowns about an organization that is now once again at the helm in one of the world's most fragile states.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49343559008560,"sku":"BDfvvl","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/fvvl-Square-cover.jpg?v=1778677150","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-fvvl","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}