Salang

by Sandy Gall

This is the third book from Sandy Gall, a thriller set in the last days of the war in Afghanistan. As the West waits for Russia to withdraw her troops, a Russian defector and a disgraced ex-SAS man are assigned to a mission of encouragement. It is their task to sabotage and their target is Salang.

252 pages, Paperback

First published May 4, 1989

About the author

Henderson Alexander Gall was a Scottish journalist, author and Independent Television News (ITN) news presenter whose career as a journalist spanned more than 50 years. He began his career in journalism as a sub-editor at the Aberdeen Press and Journal in 1952 and became a foreign correspondent for the Reuters international news agency from 1953 to 1963. Gall joined ITN as a foreign reporter and troubleshooter in 1963, and also worked as a newscaster on News at Ten between 1970 and 1991. He was the Rector of the University of Aberdeen from 1978 to 1981 and founded the Sandy Gall's Afghanistan Appeal charity with his wife in 1986.

Reviews

[Steve822 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad time passer. It is dated, we think differently about the Afghan fighters now but when Gall wrote the book they were our favourite freedom fighters. The story plots get a bit unrealistic and after the main operation gets done, you wonder where the story is going, which is probably the reason I finished it.