The Taliban invaded Swat District in northern Pakistan in the year 2008. The government of Pakistan yielded control without a fight, leaving the residents of Swat to fend for themselves. Farooq Davi and his friends Reshtina Jadoon and Marwand Marwat are the children of Swat, forced to come of age in a town occupied by the Taliban and ruled by terror. With their world falling into ruins around them and opportunities for a normal life gone, what will they do? What decisions will they make? Which side of the conflict will they choose to ally with? Blending elements of the Bildungsroman, the war...

A book of poems. There are many topics that are covered in this book.

The author and his editor from The Mossback Review went to Las Vegas in June 2012 to cover the off-year Conference for Young Conservatives. The conference was a bust, but while in Vegas they happened upon a much larger story, one that had the potential to bring down a presidency. We all know that fiction titled "Operation Neptune Spear." That's the story of how SEAL Team Six rode top secret stealth helicopters deep into Pakistani airspace to the city of Abbottabad, where they assaulted a walled compound and killed Osama bin Laden. If the details of that mission seemed too fantastical to be...