Pakistan on the Brink - by Ahmed Rashid (Paperback)

About the Book

An urgent, on-the-ground report from Pakistan--from the bestselling author of "Descent Into Chaos" and "Taliban." Rashid, one of the world's leading experts on the social and political situations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, offers a highly anticipated update on the possibilities--and hazards--facing the United States after the death of Osama bin Laden.

Book Synopsis

An urgent, on-the-ground report from Pakistan--from the bestselling author of Descent Into Chaos and Taliban

Ahmed Rashid, one of the world's leading experts on the social and political situations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, offers a highly anticipated update on the possibilities--and hazards--facing the United States after the death of Osama bin Laden and as Operation Enduring Freedom winds down. With the characteristic professionalism that has made him the preeminent independent journalist in Pakistan for three decades, Rashid asks the important questions and delivers informed insights about the future of U.S. relations with the troubled region. His most urgent book to date, Pakistan on the Brink is the third volume in a comprehensive series that is a call to action to our nation's leaders and an exposition of this conflict's impact on the security of the world.

Review Quotes

"[Rashid] literally wrote the book on the Taliban and now has added a superb work on the future of Pakistan."
-- The Washington Post

"Insightful . . . Readers will welcome this insider's lucid, expert account of a disaster in the making." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Pakistan on the Brink is a page turner. Through Ahmed Rashid's eloquent, incisive, objective, and fact-based descriptions of events and blunders repeatedly committed by the Afghan, Pakistani, and American establishments, the reader gets a great understanding of the genesis of the quagmire for which President Obama has coined the phrase AfPak." -- Louisville Courier-Journal

Praise for Descent into Chaos

"Powerful." -- Wolf Blitzer

"A clear-headed, sobering look at a country whose ties with the U.S. are becoming ever more frayed." -- Publishers Weekly

"Rashid, a Pakistani journalist, is that most valuable of political analysts: both insider and outsider to the problems he studies. His book should be read by anyone pondering how America might stop widening Osama bin Laden's pool of bomb-clad volunteers." -- Chicago Tribune

"Rashid's book should be required reading for both presidential candidates, and anyone who wants to understand the jihadi problem." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Ahmed Rashid's latest work provides essential insights for anyone who hopes to understand what's going on in Central Asia and the alternative futures that stretch out before it."
-- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"A clear-headed, sobering look at a country whose ties with the U.S. are becoming ever more frayed." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Excellent...Nobody tells the story of Musharaff's duplicity better than Rashid." -- Time

"Ahmed Rashid has over the decades turned out to be something of a prophet in the region...[and] his fourth book [is] a caustic compendium of the mistakes by the Bush administration and, by extension, its regional allies, in tackling Islamic militancy." -- International Herald Tribune

About the Author

Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist based in Lahore, is the author of Descent Into Chaos and the #1 New York Times bestseller Taliban. He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times and the New York Times, and appears regularly on NPR, CNN, and the BBC World Service.