Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban Book

An American reporter's chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Washington Post - Ann Scott Tyson

The insights that [Van Dyk] has drawn from his decades of experience in Afghanistan and his familiarity with Pashtun culture in particular make his account of 45 days of captivity with the Taliban rich and revealing…On the whole…this first-hand account offers a rare and complicated portrait of the Taliban mentality seen through discerning Western eyes.