"[Smith's] book has the emotional candor of a memoir and the geopolitical acuity of an expert policy paper... His prose is clear and strong." ——基督科學箴言報
"Eloquent and sometimes-hallucinatory…Smith is a master of the battlefield description, but he's even better at slyly noting the ironies and complexities of the war…Cheerless and even nightmarish, one of the best books yet about the war in Central Asia." ——科克斯評論,星級書評
"…gripping and disheartening testimonies to the hell of war and the resilience of foreign correspondents.…a timely story of the perils of reporting from a region deeply inhospitable to Westerners.…These obstacles make his stories about prisoner abuse, the Canadian role in the surge, and meetings with Taliban fighters all the more remarkable.…he champions further investment in the region."——出版人周刊,星級書評