The contractor : how I landed in a Pakistani prison and ignited a diplomatic crisis
Davis, Raymond Allen, 1974-2017
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Total copies: 1
A lot has been written about the time contractor Raymond Davis spent in a Pakistani jail in 2011. Unfortunately, much of it is misleading-or downright false-information. Now, the man at the center of the controversy tells his side of the story for the very first time. In The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis, Davis offers an up-close and personal look at the 2011 incident in Lahore, Pakistan, that led to his imprisonment and the events that took place as diplomats on both sides of the bargaining table scrambled to get him out. How did a routine drive turn into front-page news? Davis dissects the incident before taking readers on the same journey he endured while trapped in the Kafkaesque Pakistani legal system. As a veteran security contractor, Davis had come to terms with the prospect of dying long before the January 27, 2011 shooting, but nothing could prepare him for being a political pawn in a game with the highest stakes imaginable. An eye-opening memoir, The Contractor takes the veil off Raymond Davis's story and offers a sober reflection on the true cost of the War on Terror.
Main title:
The contractor : how I landed in a Pakistani prison and ignited a diplomatic crisis / Raymond Davis with Storms Reback.
Author:
Davis, Raymond Allen, 1974-, authorReback, Storms, author
Imprint:
Dallas : BenBella Books, 2017.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781941631843 (hbk)
Dewey class:
327.7305491327.7305
LC class:
E183.8.P18
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
312862