ECLIPSE: The Story of a Witness to Life Under the Taliban

For purposes that you, the reader, will understand by the end of this memoir, my name will be known as Fazool Saraiy, “Nothing Man” in the Pashto language; the names of individuals herein have been altered for similar precautions. The events are true. This is the recollection of a dark period in my life and the lives of all Pakistanis by a threat that still looms on the fringes of our borders, hiding in the mountains of this beautiful land, eager to unleash itself upon a world weary of terror, should we again let down our guard. With the help of my dear friend, my account of these two years is here documented.
It is both a tribute to those good people everywhere who have given the ultimate sacrifice to keep our world from crumbling into the abyss as well as my effort as one small man toward the perpetuation of the freedom for which they suffered.