The Leopard's Daughter is a book about the Afghan war. It's told, on the one hand through the eyes of an American soldier, a Denver surgeon of Pashtun descent, and on the other through those of Pashtuns on both sides of the Afghan-Pak border. It begins with a suicide bombing in a Pashtun village. It ends with concerted attempts by the CIA to assassinate their torture victim, the Pashtun widow who is the Leopard's Daughter.