Research and bibliographyMy research for The Afghan and for its direct sequel in the Joe Johnson series, Stalin’s Final Sting, was all carried out as part of the same process. Both books are set mainly in Afghanistan and I researched, wrote, and edited both of them in parallel. The biggest difference lies in the timeframe: The Afghan is set in 1988, when Johnson was still working for the CIA, and Stalin’s Final Sting in 2013, but there are many references in the latter book to events and situations in the former.
For this reason, the following notes that I have put together on my research sources are very similar for both titles.
Across both books the research proved to be so interesting that I often found myself immersed in some book or article online and had to remind myself to get on
