No ordinary assignment: a memoir

Prologue : Kabul, August 2021

Uncle Desmond got kicked by a cow

Chicken shit

The highest point

Dubai girl

"Short virgins will never make good war photographers"

"No openings"

Cross fire

"Our correspondent we are not naming for security reasons"

Homs

A killing

Helicopters under a full moon

A massacre in Cairo

The scarlet woman award

Under attack

Growing basil in Beirut

No foreign accents

Auditioning

Thumbing Humvees in Hell

A relapse

Women of war

A bitter return

"I will be your leg"

Ceremonies

The deal of the century

"There is not a future for you here"

Taliban on the march

The fall.