Audio Book Description:
CHARLIE WILSON`S WAR is the untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, amaverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and mostsuccessful covert operation in theAgency`s history. In the early 1980`s after a Houston socialite turned Wilson`s attention to the ragged Afghan freedom fighters who continuedto fight the Soviet invaders despite overwhelming odds, the congressman became passionate about their cause and procured hundreds of millions ofdollars to support the mujahideen. Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol, to secret chambers at Langley, to arms-dealers conventions,to the Khyber Pass, CHARLIE WILSON`S WARis a detailed and brilliantly reported account of the inside workings of the CIA.
