A review by tumblehawk
The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan by Michael Hastings

5.0

Bam! Here's a book! The sentences are tight! The action moves. And the information, dizzying in its scope, is rendered entirely digestible. The result: you get the picture, you get the story, all the pieces, and are able to follow the bureaucratic nightmarish clusterfuck that is America in Afghanistan with a mix of horror and awe. It is a damn shame that Michael Hastings died in a car crash in June of 2013, because he has left behind all the markings of a writer and a journalist with immense amounts of promise. I'm sad to think that, as time marches ever onwards and nations, corporations, and individuals of power and influence perpetrate all sorts of heinous bullshit around the world, there will be one less fearless journalist with an incredible mastery of language to report back to us on the happenings with his unique take.

Read this book!