Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 480 pages | ISBN 9780143036739 | 28 Mar 2006 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down offers more than twenty years' worth of his finest nonfiction
Anyone who has read Mark Bowden’s Black Hawk Down or Killing Pablo knows that he is capable of putting us in the heat of a story in a way few writers can. Road Work gathers the best of his award-winning writing, from his breakout stories for the Philadelphia Inquirer to his influential pieces in the Atlantic on the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Whether traveling to Zambia, where a team of antipoachers fights to save the black rhino, to Guantánamo Bay to expose the controversial ways America is fighting its war on terror, or to a small town in Rhode Island to penetrate the largest cocaine ring in history, Bowden takes us down rough roads previously off limits—and gives us another gripping read.
Tales of the Tyrant
The Kabulki Dance
The Art of Interrogation
Al Sharpton profile
Salon Republican National Convention 2000
The Game of a Lifetime
The Unkindest Cut
Schmidt's Misfortune
The Great Potato Pick-Off Play
Rhino
The Urban Gorilla
Breeding the Better Cow
Battling the Baddies in Fantasyland
Fight to the Finish
Fight with Fame (Norman Mailer)
The Fight Rocky Lost
Mayberry Vice
Cops on the Take
"Bowden’s range is broad. . . . With heartbreaking detail, [these pieces] reveal his most effective reporting tool: empathy." —Entertainment Weekly (A)
"Mark Bowden is a master of narrative journalism." —The New York Times Book Review
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