A collection of interconnected short stories by a former District Commissioner for Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province. Apparently inexorable consequences play out through multiple lives on both sides of the Afghan border: outstanding, unforgettable, and full of insight into the people of that region and the pashtunwali – the Pashtun code of conduct.
The Wandering Falcon
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