Byliner Recommends

• Echoes from a Distant Battlefield

  by Mark Bowden + Follow

  Vanity Fair | December 2011

  When First Lieutenant Jonathan Brostrom was killed by Taliban fighters in 2008, while attempting a heroic rescue in a perilously isolated outpost, his war was over. His father’s war, to hold the U.S. Army accountable for Brostrom’s death, had just begun. And Lieutenant Colonel William Ostlund’s war—to defend his own record as commander—was yet to come. With three perspectives on the most scrutinized engagement of the Afghanistan conflict, one that shook the military to its foundations, Mark Bowden learns the true tragedy of the Battle of Wanat.

• The Case of the Vanishing Blonde

  by Mark Bowden + Follow

  Vanity Fair | December 2010

  Private investigator Ken Brennan was given a mystery to solve: Who raped, beat and left for dead a 21-year-old blond woman? She couldn't remember her attacker. The police gave up on the case. This is the story of the man who broke it open, and the steps that led him to a perpetrator no one else suspected.

• The Dark Art of Interrogation

  by Mark Bowden + Follow

  The Atlantic | October 2003

  The most effective way to gather intelligence and thwart terrorism can also be a direct route into morally repugnant terrain. A survey of the landscape of persuasion.