In the wake of the terrible shock of 9/11, the C.I.A. scrambled to work out how to destroy Bin Laden and his associates. Following on from Coll's Pulitzer Prize winning GHOST WARS, this is the story of America's involvement in the affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2016 and tells a powerful, bitter story of just how badly foreign policy decisions can go wrong and of many lives lost..