The Leopard's Daughter A Pukhtun Story

His Pashtun grandmother and a legendary Green Beret encourage Mohammed to use his surgical talents in Afghanistan. A covert Langley program, OWL, the Others Watch List, ensure his every Pashto conversation, his prayers in village mosques, his every contact with villagers becomes suspect. He cannot know that saving the life and an ambushed Pashtun widow will bring calamity to her and her family. The widow is Shahay, the Leopard's Daughter. She will survive only if she can summon the claws and teeth of Lema, her childhood playmate. If she survives, she will need to put her life at risk for Mohammed.