Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier

by Joel Hafvenstein

Lyons Press

November 2007, 352 pages, $24.95

by Jacqueline Loohauis-Bennett

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)

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Switch "Afghan" with "Vietnamese" and you experience a chilling sense of deja vu while reading Opium Season.

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