Jere Van Dyk knows Afghanistan well from decades of covering the news there. But his vast knowledge did not protect him from kidnapping; he was taken in 2008.
45 days later, he was free... and not sure why. He decided to investigate the odd circumstances of his release, a story he tells in The Trade: My Journey into the Labyrinth of Political Kidnapping.
The title is not applied casually... kidnapping is indeed a business in Afghanistan. The author joins us with details of what he found out.
