Opium Season

Opium Season
Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier  
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Author(s) Joel Hafvenstein
Cover artist Georgianna Goodwin
Country USA
Language English
Subject(s) Afghanistan, opium trade, travel
Publisher The Lyons Press
Publication date November 1, 2007
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 336
ISBN 978-1-59921-131-2
OCLC Number 148949291
Dewey Decimal 958.104/7 22
LC Classification DS371.4 .H32 2007

Opium Season is the story of a young American working on the brutal fault line where the war on terror meets the war on drugs.

Plot

Joel Hafvenstein signed up for a year in Afghanistan in the heart of the country's opium trade, running an American-funded aid program to help thousands of opium poppy farmers make a legal living, and to win hearts and minds away from the former Taliban government. The author was soon caught up in the deadly intrigues of Helmand's drug trafficking warlords.

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