Wow... stumbled onto a detailed revisionist history of the incident where several American climbers were kidnapped in the same valley in Kyrgyzstan that Brian and I had climbed in only two years prior.
The author spent five weeks in Kyrgyzstan investigating the affair and there is a lot more detail than I've heard before. I'm unfamiliar with all the place names he mentions, but I know exactly what bridge he was talking about where three Kyrgyz special forces soldiers were killed by Islamic rebels.
Now there is a big, uninteresting stink between this author, Jason Bouchard, and another, Greg Child, who has already written a book on the subject. Child is accused of having an unseemly financial relation with the hostages. Bouchard is accused of being bitter and ambitious. Blah blah blah.
I'm only intersted to see the book(s) for their maps and place details so that I can more accurately recall where we were, and where everything went on.