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Book SynopsisSteve Coll is most recently the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller
Ghost Wars. He also won a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. He covered Afghanistan as the
Washington Post's South Asia bureau chief between 1989 and 1992 and was the
Post's managing editor from 1998 to 2004. He is now a staff writer for the
New Yorker. He is the author of five books, including
On the Grand Trunk Road and
The Taking of Getty Oil. He lives with his wife and three children in Maryland.
Trade Review'Enthralling ! explains a great deal about the tentacles that run from Riyadh to touch a wider world, tentacles of corruption, ambition, hedonism and dislocation ! a classic saga' Observer 'A rich and fluent portrait of a family and a country and of their deeply conflicted relationship with America' Economist 'Grippingly told ! ought to be read by anyone who really wants to understand the origins of the current crisis' Los Angeles Times
