' Spellbinding a magisterial account of the great tragedy of our age it is a classic' Evening Standard' In the finest traditions of American investigative journalism' The Times' Spectacular makes Bourne movies pale in comparison' Financial Times From the Pulitzer Prize winning of the acclaimed Ghost Wars this is the full story of America's grim involvement in the affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2016 In the wake of the terrible shock of 911 the CIA scrambled to work out how to destroy Bin Laden & his associates The CIA had long familiarity with Afghanistan & had worked closely with the Taliban to defeat the Soviet Union there A tangle of assumptions old contacts favours & animosities were now reactivated Superficially the invasion was quick & efficient but Bin Laden's successful escape together with that of much of the Taliban leadership & a catastrophic failure to define the limits of NATO's mission in a tough impoverished country the size of Texas created a quagmire which lasted many years At the heart of the problem lay ' Directorate S' a highly secretive arm of the Pakistan state which had its own views on the Taliban & Afghanistan's place in a wider competition for influence between Pakistan India & China & which assumed that the USA & its allies would soon be leaving Steve Coll's remarkable new book tells a powerful bitter story of just how badly foreign policy decisions can go wrong & of many lives lost ...

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Dirk Gently Douglas Adams& perennially broke morally dubious Holistic Detective whose investigations are based on the " Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things" is finally brought to television in BBC4&s hit series Created by Howard Overman (Misfits) & starring Stephen Mangan (Episodes Green Wing) as Dirk & Darren Boyd (Spy Whites) as his put-upon business partner Richard Mac Duff these four stories take in a missing cat a stolen robot horoscopes that actually predict the future & a Pentagon plot to destroy the Free World & while solving these cases Dirk must stay one step ahead of Mac Duff&s sceptical girlfriend Susan (Helen Baxendale--Cold Feet Friends) harassed Detective Inspector Gilks (Jason Watkins--Trollied) & his own unpaid unappreciated assistant Janice (Lisa Jackson--Campus) all while escaping the attentions of the Taxman & framing a man for murder Based on the much-loved books by Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy) Dirk Gently is written by Howard Overman Jamie Mathieson (Being Human) & Matt Jones (Doctor Who Skins) Part genius part conman mostly tangential Dirk Gently is a detective like no other

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Douglas Adams& holistic detective Dirk Gently has his comic book adventures collected here in DIRK GENTLY&S BIG HOLISTIC GRAPHIC NOVEL Containing two st&-alone series enjoy " The Interconnectedness of All Kings" & "A Spoon Too Short" But that&s not all! Also

Includes:: bonus material showing a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the DIRK GENTLY TV show

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Dirk Gently created by Douglas Adams & shortly to be the star of his own television series from BBC America returns to comics in The Salmon of Doubt brought to you by executive producers of the show Arvind Ethan David & Max Landis Plagued by nightmares about a childhood he never had Dirk returns to Cambridge University to seek the advice of his former tutor the time-traveling Professor Reg Chronotis There he discovers that a holistic detective can have more than one past & his adventures have only just begun Featuring favorite characters from the original books as well as the cast from the TV series including Samuel Barnett & Elijah Wood About the Author Arvind Ethan David is a Malaysian-born British film producer graduate of Oxford Univeristy & the founder of Slingshot Productions He is best known for producing David Baddiel’s The Infidel in 2010 Other feature films he has produced include Tormented starring Alex Pettyfer & French Film starring Hugh Bonneville & Manchester United football legend Eric Cantona French Film won Best Actor for Bonneville & Best Screenplay for Aschlin Ditta at the 2008 Monte Carlo Film Festival David also won Best Adaptation at the 2007 LA Weekly Theater Awards for Dirk based on Dirk Gently&s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams ...

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Doulgas Adams author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a much-loved cult classic that has spawned radio dramas television theatre & comic book adaptations across the globe What do a dead cat a computer whiz-kid an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink quantum mechanics a Chronologist over two hundred years old Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet) & pizza have in common? Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently self-styled private investigator sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder assisting a mysterious professor unravelling a mysterious mystery & eating a lot of pizza
- not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge) To find out more read this book (better still buy it then read it)
- or contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 'A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic'
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After the many & conflicting versions of the legendary Hitchhiker&s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams created Dirk Gently a detective with a belief in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things a troubled relationship with the laws of probability & quantum physics & a love of cats & pizza After the events of “ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” & “ The Long Dark Tea Time” but prior to the detective’s relocation to California in “ The Interconnectedness of All Kings” Dirk finds himself investigating a bizarre case of poaching dumbstruck tourists & the inner membranes of a rhinoceros’ nose ...

Dirk Gently&s Holistic Detective Agency Everything is Connected is the first in a series of " Everything is Connected" storytelling games in which the mysteries are only as looney as the players In this game a detective & a holistic detective put together the clues accuse a person of interest & tell their assistants the story of the crime The assistants then process the two versions of the case & simultaneously select which version of the truth is more believable To solve the case you have to think on your feet & remember that "everything is connected" 3–8 Players 20–60 Min Playing Time Age 16 ...

Harry Enfield stars as the eponymous detective in two full-cast radio dramatisations of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novels Dirk Gently has an unshakeable faith in the interconnectedness of all things but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats
- until he becomes embroiled in two surreal supernatural cases that will test his belief to the limits Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency When an old friend starts behaving strangely Dirk is drawn into a murder investigation involving quantum physics an Electric Monk & a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Fallen on hard times the psychic sleuth is reading palms in a tent dressed as an old gypsy woman But the discovery of a headless body in a sealed room plunges Dirk into a mystery involving a goblin a giant eagle & several Norse gods Directed for BBC Radio 4 by Dirk Maggs (chosen by Douglas Adams to conclude the award-winning The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) these fantastically entertaining comedy sci-fi dramas star Harry Enfield as Dirk Gently with Olivia Colman Billy Boyd Andrew Sachs John Fortune Peter Davison Jan Ravens Susan Sheridan Jim Carter & many more These CDs contain over 90 minutes of additional unbroadcast material Duration 7 hrs approx
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After writing all the many & conflicting versions of the legendary " Hitchhiker&s Guide to the Galaxy" beloved author Douglas Adams created Dirk Gently a detective with a belief in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things a unique relationship with the laws of probability & physics & a love of cats & pizza In his first-ever comic series Dirk has been forced to leave his beloved England behind coming to the too-sunny too-cheery & altogether too-bizarre-even-for-Dirk city of San Diego California where he gets embroiled in three separate (or are they?) cases involving reincarnated Egyptians golden cell phones & copycat killers All this in a new town seemingly incapable of making even a single proper cup of tea by Tony Akins Chris Ryall ...