Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda - Tapa dura

"A stunning, deeply disturbing book ... A must-read for all Western policymakers." - Ahmed Rashid, bestselling author of 'Taliban' and 'Descent into Chaos' "Superlative ... It is a primer for the new administration - a blueprint for what must be done in Afghanistan to rescue victory from the jaws of defeat." - Jack Lawn, DEA chief under Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush "Important ... Peters builds a solid case [and] has exhaustively framed one of the thorniest problems facing policy makers in this long war." - Publishers Weekly "Sure to be hotly discussed." - Booklist

"Seeds of Terror" will reshape the way you think about the West's enemies, revealing them less as ideologues and more as criminals who earn half a billion pounds every year off the opium trade. With the breakneck pace of a thriller, author Gretchen Peters traces their illicit activities from vast poppy fields in southern Afghanistan to heroin labs run by Taliban commanders, from drug convoys armed with Stinger missiles to the money launderers of Karachi and Dubai. Based on hundreds of interviews with Taliban fighters, smugglers, and law enforcement and intelligence agents, Peters makes the case that we must cut terrorists off from their drug earnings if we ever hope to beat them.