To Live or to Perish Forever

A gritty, lively, and revelatory look inside the crucial and volatile nation of Pakistan In To Live or to Perish Forever , Nicholas Schmidle takes readers to Pakistan's rioting streets, to Taliban camps in the North-West Frontier Province, and on many surprising adventures as he provides a contemporary history of this country long riven by internal conflict. With the intimacy and good humor available only to the most fearless and open-eyed reporters, Schmidle narrates what was arguably the most