AFTERSHOCK

matthew green has spent the past fourteeen years working as a correspondent for the Financial Times and Reuters and has reported from more than thirty countries, most recently Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he investigated subjects including the money men bankrolling the Taliban and the kingpins behind Pakistan’s heroin trade. After studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, he began his career with Reuters, working in east and west Africa and in Iraq, where he was embedded with US Marines during the invasion in 2003. He later joined the Financial Times, based in Nigeria and then Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he spent time with US forces deployed to Helmand and Kandahar provinces in the Obama administration’s troop surge. Green now lives in London and appears regularly as a commentator on the BBC News Channel and World Service, and has written for publications including the Guardian long reads section and Newsweek . His first book, also published by Portobello Books, was The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Joseph Kony, which won a Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize. www.matthewgreenjournalism.com @Matthew__Green

‘It’s a testament to Matthew Green’s even-handedness that his unsentimental but horribly affecting tales of soldier’s lives destroyed by their experiences in combat never descends into war is hell clichés . . . mixing journalistic rigour with historical investigation, he goes in search of a solution for post-traumatic stress disorder’ Observer

‘Brilliantly written . . . Once started reading couldn’t put down’ Garrison Girl- Sarah @GarrisonGirls

‘This is a most compelling book which tells the story of those who have suffered so much in the conduct of operation to protect our security. Mental health pressures need to move centre stage in our priorities – now!’ General the Lord Richard Dannatt, former Chief of the General Staff

‘#Aftershock – an excellent book; just coming to the end of reading it: highly recommended!’ Ian Patterson @psytac