[Charlie Wilson's War 01] • The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History

s/t: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress Art Alper, the grandfatherly demolitions expert from the Technical Services Division who passed on his dark arts to the Afghans; Mike Vickers, the former Green Beret who created a systematic plan to turn a rabble of shepherds into an army of techno Holy warriors.

Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol, to secret chambers at Langley, to arms-dealers conventions, to the Khyber Pass, Charlie Wilson's War is one of the most detailed & compulsively readable accounts of the inside workings of the CIA ever written.