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The Nine Lives of Pakistan - Dispatches from a Precarious State (Hardcover)
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan - Dispatches from a Precarious State (Hardcover)
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished
international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan
over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange,
wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine
fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened
between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to
the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of
Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis-a
chieftain readying for war at his desert fort, a retired spy
skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking
death for her beliefs, among others. Through these "nine lives" he
describes a country on the brink-a place of creeping extremism and
political chaos, but also personal bravery and dogged idealism that
defy easy stereotypes. Unbeknownst to Walsh, however, an
intelligence agent was tracking him. Written in the aftermath of
Walsh's abrupt deportation, The Nine Lives of Pakistan concludes
with an astonishing encounter with that agent, and his revelations
about Pakistan's powerful security state. Intimate and complex,
attuned to the centrifugal forces of history, identity, and faith,
The Nine Lives of Pakistan offers an unflinching account of life in
a precarious, vital country.
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