Seeds of Terror: How Drugs, Thugs, and Crime Are Reshaping the Afghan War [Paperback]

Seeds of Terroris a groundbreaking triumph of reporting, a book that changed U.S. policy toward the Afghan heroin trade and the fight against terror.

Gretchen Peters exposes the deepening relationship between the Taliban and drug traffickers, and traces decades of America's failure to disrupt the opium production that helps fund extremism. The Taliban earns as much as half a billion dollars annually from drugs and crime, and Peters argues that disrupting this flow of dirty money will be critical to stabilizing Afghanistan. Based on hundreds of interviews with fighters, smugglers, and government officials,Seeds of Terroris the essential story of the narco-terror nexus behind America's widening war in Afghanistan.

Gretchen Petershas covered Pakistan and Afghanistan for more than a decade, first for the Associated Press and later for ABC News. A Harvard graduate, Peters was nominated for an Emmy for her coverage of the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto and won the SAJA Journalism Award for aNightlinesegment on Pervez Musharraf. She lives in the United States with her husband, the Robert Capa Gold Medal-winning photojournalist John Moore, and their two daughters.

Stunning . . . A must-read for all western policy makers and President Obama. Ahmed Rashid, New York Times Bestselling author of Taliban and Descent into Chaos

Seeds of Terror offers layer after layer of fascinating information about the deadly consequences of decades of disastrous policy decisions. This is a well-written, well-documented, and exemplary work of journalism. Lewis Perdue, Barron's

Meticulously researched. The Sunday Times (London)

Excellent & Gretchen Peters's disturbing book plainly states that unless the opium-smuggling industry is put out of business, the nation-building exercise in Afghanistan is destined for failure. We should heed her warnings. Emran Qureshi, The Globe and Maló)