“88 Days to Kandahar”

When President George W. Bush ordered U.S. troops to invade Afghanistan in 2001, Robert Grenier, then the CIA station chief in Islamabad, Pakistan, found himself directing the country’s “southern campaign” -- orchestrating the final defeat of the Taliban and Hamid Karzai’s rise to power in 88 chaotic days. What results is a post-9/11 race to unseat the Taliban and al Qaeda that forever changes the United States’ relationship with Afghanistan.