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Author
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When Michael Parson, a navigator, and Sergeant Gold, an Army interpreter, are shot down over Afghanistan while transporting an important Taliban detainee, they are forced to survive amid the dangers of the Taliban, villagers of uncertain allegiance, and an uncooperative prisoner.
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In military circles it's known as Air Battle Force -- an air combat unit of the future, under the command of aerialwarfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan,capable of launching stealthy, precision-guidedfirepower to anywhere on the globe within hours. And now McLanahan and his warriors have their first target. Driven from Afghanistan, the parasitic forces of the deposed Taliban regime have decided to feed on a new host -- an isolated, oil-rich...
Author
Series
John Wells volume 6
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In 2009, the CIA's Kabul Station fell for a source who promised to lead it to Bin Laden, but instead he blew himself up, taking the station's most senior officers with him. Now, more than two years later, the station is still floundering, agents are dying, and at Langley the CIA's chiefs wonder if the unthinkable has happened, if somehow the Taliban has infiltrated the station. When they ask John Wells to investigate, he reluctantly agrees to return...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined"--
On September 11, 2001, the lives of two boys on opposite sides of the world are changed in an instant. The family of Baheer, a studious Afghan...
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