Whiskey tango foxtrot
Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent. Beginning her career as an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she soon grew into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concerns about our ability to win hearts and minds in the region, not to mention racking up a number of crazy but...
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| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
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[New York] :
Random House Audio,
[2011]
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| Edition: | Unabridged. |
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| Summary: | Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent. Beginning her career as an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she soon grew into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concerns about our ability to win hearts and minds in the region, not to mention racking up a number of crazy but true stories. |
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| Item Description: | Title from disc surface. "Originally published as The Taliban Shuffle"--Container. Compact discs. |
| Physical Description: | 8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time: | 10:00:00 |
| ISBN: | 9780735287242 0735287244 |
| Author Notes: | Kim Barker was the South Asia bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 2004 to 2009, based in New Delhi and Islamabad. Her book about those years, The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan , a dark comedic take on her time in South Asia, was published by Doubleday. The movie version, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot , was released in 2016, starring Tina Fey, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, Margot Robbie and Billy Bob Thornton. Barker is now a metro reporter at The New York Times , specializing in investigative reporting and narrative writing. Before joining The Times in mid-2014, Ms. Barker was an investigative reporter at ProPublica. |
