Road Work ─ Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, And Beasts

Anyone who has read Mark BowdenA'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 GuantA-namo 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 limitsA-and gives us another gripping read.

A"BowdenA's range is broad. . . . With heartbreaking detail, [these pieces] reveal his most effective reporting tool: empathy.A" A-Entertainment Weekly (A)
A"Mark Bowden is a master of narrative journalism.A" A-The New York Times Book Review