Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban »

Jere Van Dyk is the author of In Afghanistan: An American Odyssey, an account of his travels with the mujahideen in the 1980s, during their struggle against the Soviet Union. Since then, he has covered stories all over the world, mainly for The New York Times, CBS News, and National Geographic, that have required him to visit places where few Western reporters had ventured before. He lives in New York City.

An American reporter's chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Washington Post - Ann Scott Tyson

The insights that [Van Dyk] has drawn from his decades of experience in Afghanistan and his familiarity with Pashtun culture in particular make his account of 45 days of captivity with the Taliban rich and revealing…On the whole…this first-hand account offers a rare and complicated portrait of the Taliban mentality seen through discerning Western eyes.