Jon Swain - writer and foreign correspondent

Some of Jon’s book reviews

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The Cage by Gordon Weiss: the Sri Lankan army’s massacre of civilians in 2009 and how it hid the killings from the world’s gaze.

The Good Soldiers by David Finkel: the war in Iraq and why it will mark the soldiers involved in it for life.

Seeds of Terror by Gretchen Peters: the drugs war in Afghanistan and how opium bankrolls the Taliban.