Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip is the account of Ethan Casey's journey, entirely overland, starting in Mumbai, India - just three months after the November 2008 terrorist siege of that city - and ending six weeks later in Karachi, Pakistan. Beautifully illustrated by 32 pages of photographs by Pete Sabo, the book documents the human dimension of Pakistanis' experience of contemporary history since 2004. Updating the story told in Casey's acclaimed travel book Alive and Well in Pakistan (2004), Overtaken By Events humanizes Pakistan and Pakistains for a volatile period in a chronically volatile country, from the shocking assassination of Benazir Bhutto to the heartening "lawyers' movement" for the restoration of an independent judiciary. It also offers Indian views of Pakistan and glimpses of the situation of Muslims in India. The title says it all. As Emma Duncan observed two decades ago in Breaking the Curfew, "Nothing is settled in Pakistan...Every small event may hold the key to denouement." Overtaken By Events is a unique record of an action-packed time and place, written in graceful and entertaining prose.

Overtaken By Events

Ethan Casey

Blue Ear Books

Product Description An Award-Winning Finalist in the 2021 American Book Fest and the 2021 Wishing Shelf Book Contest, Consequences is both a riveting behind-the-scenes look at intelligence operations at the height of the Iraq war, and a charming and sobering story of one man's journey through the pleasures and consequences that come with wartime intelligence.In 2006, David Grantham was fresh out of college and serving as a counterintelligence officer with the elite and secretive Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Iraq was veering toward civil war. The U.S. military desperately needed better on-the-ground intelligence to turn the tide. Grantham found himself in Kuwait and Afghanistan, then at Iraq's infamous American prison, Camp Bucca. Not only was Bucca the breeding ground for the Islamic State, it was in southern Iraq, where America's deadly fight with Iran was an open secret. Review "A brilliantly written, one-of-a-kind memoir that explores the dangers that counterintelligence officers face on the ground, the perils resulting from poor politics and lack of imagination, and what it feels like to work, immersed in the hostile world of Islamic terrorism." The Book Commentary "Grantham weaves the clandestine activities of his intelligence missions into a gripping narrative, showing that facts are actually more fantastic than fiction. It is aninformative book on intelligence missions and also an important primer on the evolution of radical jihadism in prisons like Camp Bucca." BookViewReview "An intelligent book about intelligence...informative and insightful...This is a brave and important book..." MJV Literary Reviews "Grantham's non-fiction book reads like a true adventure novel about the counterterrorism shadow world where predator and prey still circle one another 20 years after9/11. The people who inhabit OSI are blood and guts counterintelligence officers who get deployed to dangerous hot spots around the world. Grantham takes you straight into an ether of secret informant recruitment and intelligence collection where the stakes for operators and America could not be higher and where real lives always hang in the balance." Todd Bensman, author of America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration."Told with grit, honesty, and remarkable intensity, this is a must-read foranyone interested in the inside story of America's various counterintelligencemissions in Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq." The Prairies Book Review "Very little has been written on the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations efforts in the global war on terror. Consequences by David Grantham provides a unique and fascinating window into the nuts and bolts of OSI counterintelligence operations. You won't be disappointed." - Fred Burton, author of Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah's War Against America"What spark ignited the fire which burns in David's soul for truth, justice, and freedom at a global level? The answers can be found in this sensational story. I know you'll enjoy it." Calev Myers, Founder and Chairman, ARISE - Alliance to Reinforce Israel's Security and Economy"I write this review as a reporter who was embedded with a leadArmy unit during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. David Grantham unfolds what lifeon the ground was like as he and fellow Air Force OSI officers conductedcounterintelligence in Iraq and Afghanistan to help counter threats toU.S. military forces. Their work in the face of frustratinglimitations and the difficulty of assessing who to trust underscored thechallenges of their mission." Robert Riggs, Investigative Reporter &Creator of the True Crime Reporter™ Podcast."Anyone that is interested in both insight and truth in the war on terrorism will benefit greatly from Dr. David Grantham's work." James Amos, decorated Vietnam Veteran, business leader, and author of The Memorial."Consequences gives a riveting firsthand account

Consequences: An Intelligence Officer's War

David Grantham

In September 2012, author Ethan Casey rented a car in Seattle and drove east. It was the start of a 3 ½-month, 18,000-mile adventure that took him through every region of the contiguous United States. The drive, during and just after the 2012 presidential election, allowed Ethan to see firsthand the country's current political and social landscape and to meet and listen to a wide variety of Americans. Ethan's book holds up a mirror to 21st-century America in the tradition of travelogues like Travels with Charley (1962) by John Steinbeck, Blue Highways (1982) by William Least Heat-Moon, and The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945) by Henry Miller.

"Ethan Casey is a listener: someone who asks the good questions and then steps back and gives people space to answer. He listened hard and well in his books on Haiti and Pakistan. Now he's listening to an America that's dealing with uncertainty, division, and change, but where Casey still finds reasons for hope in the strengths of the widely varied people he meets." - Paul Rogat Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times

Home Free: An American Road Trip by Ethan Casey (2013-05-03)

Travel

Alive and Well in Pakistan: A Human Journey in a D

David Howell brings us a blend of travel narrative and mental wandering. Howell takes us on a cross-country, solo, self-supported bicycle ride from Seattle to Milwaukee. The route follows the Northern Tier: over the North Cascades Highway, through Glacier National Park, along Highway 2 and across Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. But while he tells the story of the journey-and of the characters he meets along the way-Howell also confronts a series of conundrums he had been pondering for years: Is it okay to spend so much time alone, to give in to introversion? How can one embrace introversion and solitude while also being a father and husband? By the end of the journey, he resolves that solitude can enhance one's time with others, just as time with others can enhance solitude.

The Descent into Happiness: A Bicycling Journey over the Cascades and Rockies and across the Great Plains

Howell, David

Reference

They grew up on wheat farms in Eastern Washington, on a reservation in Oklahoma, in military housing on an Air Force base in Arizona. They signed up to be Marines, soldiers, airmen, and sailors, and they became medics, truck drivers, mechanics, and infantrymen. They enlisted to honor family tradition, to find purpose in their lives, to lift themselves out of poverty, to be patriots. And they went to war. In What They Signed Up For, edited by Jeb Wyman and to be published by Blue Ear Books in summer 2017, eighteen American veterans tell their stories of going to war and life after they came home. In the cities of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, they witnessed the carnage of suicide bombs and survived daily mortar attacks. They put friends into body bags and saw others grievously wounded. They saw the effects of American firepower on civilians. They lived through the hellishness of war. For many combat veterans, the war didn't end when they took off their uniform. The psychological ravages of combat are as old as war, and although we now call it "post-traumatic stress disorder," the invisible wounds of war run deeper, and are more painful, than America wants to know. War burdens the men and women who experience it with unbearable guilt for having survived when their brothers in arms did not. War causes "moral injury," a wound to the heart from experiencing war's indifference to our belief in right and wrong. Our veterans aren't dying only on the battlefield-the cost of war continues back home.

What They Signed Up For

Jeb Wyman

Here Is What Happened: A Black Man's Discoveries and Decisions

MacDonald, Thomas

Aisha Farooqui is a Pakistani diplomat with a diverse career profile spanning more than two decades. She has served abroad in Pakistan's missions in France, Egypt, the United Kingdom, Turkey and the United States, as well as at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad. She believes that diplomats worldwide are bridges that connect people, cultures, and countries. There is no greater caring than to contribute toward greater understanding and harmony between diverse people, in the interest of global harmony and order. This collection of essays began as a diary of thoughts and reflections that the author called an "inner journey," parallel to the external journeys she has undertaken as a diplomat. "In sharing glimpses of my own life journey, thoughts, and feelings, I hope to dispel this false notion that the 'other' is different from me," she writes. "The truth is that beneath the surface, and beyond differences of color, race, nationality, ideology, and belief, the entire human race is united by the same thread: what I like to call the 'heart thread' that binds us all by similar hopes, fears, doubts, joys, grief, success, failure, and confusion about life and living."

Musings of a Nomad: Essays on Life and Living

Aisha Farooqui

Troublemakers: The Greatest Dog and Pony Show in Iraq

History

RUSSELL, STEPHEN

Military

In September 2006, Stesha Colby-Lynch left Memphis to head into the Marine Corps, not knowing that it would have a lasting impact on her life. However, her life in the Marines began not in 2006, but in 1984, with her birth as a Marine dependent. Stesha survived a dysfunctional childhood, only to be sacrificed to the horrors of abuse within the fabric of the Marine Corps. Instead of seeking professional help, she turned to alcohol, sex, and other substances as coping mechanisms.Stesha's book offers insight into a life born of its time, before, during, and after her military service. She tells funny but heartbreaking stories of life in poverty in the religious South in the 1980s and 1990s. She reflects on the people she met and the lessons she learned as a non-combat Marine in the late aughts. And she offers her readers a glimpse into the mind of a mentally ill veteran, as her struggle with alcohol affect her studies and early career and she is forced to come to terms with the ghosts of her past.No One Leaves Unscathed is a book replete with stories of love, friendship, and survival.

No One Leaves Unscathed: A Woman in the Marine Corps

Biographies & Memoirs

Colby-Lynch, Stesha

Memoirs

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