By Toby Ralph
ISBN: 978-0-14-357058-5
First published 2012
135 pages
Publisher: Penguin Specials
3/5 Stars
An interesting short read into how to run an election in a war zone.
Slightly tarnished by Ralph’s own pontificating “...typically I’m engaged to manipulate truth for electoral gain“, and “… I could still earn four times as much …”
If you are looking for a good guy, or a hero, or a plot, or redemption – you won’t find it here.
But as a snap shot of a week in Kabul trying to run an election – with the constant threat of bombs, snipers, assassins, mortars, mines, IEDs, car bombs, suicide bombers and poisonings – not to mention fecal dust – it gives the reader a sharp sense of how good your own life really is….
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