Jamil Ahmad began his career in the region in the 1950s, and was an official in the Pakistani embassy in Kabul at the time of the Soviet invasion in 1979. He was encouraged to write by his wife Helga, who painstakingly typed the handwritten manuscript on a typewriter with German keys. He lives in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Books by Jamil Ahmad

The Wandering Falcon

by Jamil Ahmad - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Set in the forbidding remote tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, THE WANDERING FALCON is an unforgettable portrait of a world of custom and compassion, of love and cruelty, of hardship and survival, a place fragile, unknown and unforgiving.