I read this expecting that in 333 pages I'd learn a good deal about Yemen. However, I mostly learned about the author, a self-absorbed, rather superficial person who gives us somewhat repetitious details of her work on a Yemeni newspaper, almost always from her point of view with few insights int...
He was always early. He had taken her with his team several times now, teaching her to fire a series of increasingly powerful arms. She began with a pistol and an AK-47, and worked her way up to an M16 and the Heckler & Koch G3 7.62 mm, with a recoil so powerful she had to fire it lying on he...