Few places on Earth were more dangerous in 1983 than Peshawar,
Pakistan. With a savage war being waged a few miles away between
the Soviet Union and the Afghan mujahideen, Peshawar had become the
new Casablanca. When she wasn t being bombed, her narrow streets
hosted a swirling human cocktail of turbaned freedom fighters,
tight-lipped foreign mercenaries, naive foreign aid workers, cruel
Pathan warlords, and more spies than ever lurked in Berlin. Riding
through this fiery forge was CuChullaine O Reilly. The journalist
who turned equestrian explorer was already familiar with Peshawar
and the surrounding lawless portions of Pakistan s North West
Frontier Province. A convert to Islam, the wandering horseman was
unfazed by religious obstacles, fluent in the patois of the
tribesmen, and able to partake of any local offering from luke warm
goat fat to sullied ditch water. Setting off from Peshawar, O
Reilly began an equestrian odyssey into a mediaeval portion of the
world devoid of mercy and machinery. His mission was to ride over
some of the world s highest mountain ranges, thread his way through
untamed tribes, and miraculously get back to war-torn Peshawar. Yet
the adventure he sought demanded a high price. His horse died and
was eaten by eager natives. He was kidnapped, tortured, imprisoned
in Pakistan s most infamous prison, and met murderers, bandits,
whores, and princes. Yet despite these setbacks, O Reilly never
lost hope that he would complete his mounted exploration of the
remote and dangerous heart of Asia. Lavishly illustrated with
dozens of drawings and maps, the resulting book was compiled from
the field notes, maps and diaries the author brought back from his
travels. It includes an in-depth glossary of native words, and the
largest collection of ethnological, historical, political, sexual,
and religious information ever gathered about life in Pakistan s
North West Frontier Province. Khyber Knights is thus a rare
talisman against a world grown soft and predictable. Its pages burn
with a bawdy portrayal of the darkest secrets of this cruel and
beautiful region. It is a tissue of mishaps and romantic
adventures, poetic passages and natural beauties, set to the
echoing of horses hooves. Told with grit and realism by one of the
world s foremost equestrian explorers, Khyber Knights has been
penned the way lives are lived, not how books are written. It makes
every effort to rip the reader s nerves to rags with its ruthless
devotion to the unvarnished truth about life in the North West
Frontier. You do not read Khyber Knights . You survive it
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