November 19, 2001 It was a little over a month ago that we shivered on the mountaintops overlooking Taloqan, with a group of Northern Alliance soldiers who were waiting patiently to retake the city that had fallen to the Taliban last year. So much has happened,...
October 18, 2001 Through the binoculars, ominous figures in dark robes could be seen moving about the mountain ridges to the west. This was the Taliban’s front line near the city of Taloqan, dotted with mortar emplacements and riven with trenches carved...
October 12, 2001 At the Northern Alliance checkpoint, half a mile from the front, I was busy talking to a 16-year-old soldier and didn’t notice the owl until it fluttered against the tether that held it to Earth. Looking closer I saw its left wing hung limply,...
Kyle Royce is the kind of young, handsome, fabulously wealthy New Yorker the tabloids have a field day with. A successful currency trader, he attends all the right charity events, arriving in one of his many exotic cars with an exquisite woman on his arm, and enough...
Huck Doyle is a professional golfer, a PGA “middler” who just manages to hold onto his tour card as he plays the smaller tournaments on the circuit. He also happens to be the son of a disgraced LAPD cop, a law school grad without a license to practice, and...
