The Deniable Agent: Undercover in Afghanistan

By Colin Berry

‘Vivid and uncomfortable reading’ – Daily Mail

As far as Colin Berry’s family were concerned, he’d gone to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban to market low-cost housing. But in fact, Berry, a former soldier, had been recruited by British intelligence to secretly buy back weapons systems that had been delivered to the Mujahideen during their struggle against the Soviets.

It was a gruelling and dangerous mission during which he saw first-hand the ravaging effects of decades of warfare on a country and its people. It ended in a hotel-room shoot-out that left two Afghans dead and Berry himself seriously wounded.