Writer Sebastian Junger and photographer Reza take you inside Ahmad Shah Massoud's anti-Taliban alliance in Afghanistan, circa November 2000.

By Michael Shnayerson Three years ago, Sebastian Junger was a 35-year-old freelance writer publishing his first booka true-life account of a commercial fishing boat lost off Gloucester, Massachusettswith a modest advance and almost no expectations. Then The Perfect Storm hit with all the force of its subject. A big prepublication movie-rights sale, a sheaf of admiring reviews, and a profile or ...

Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and Fire, remembers Afghanistan's anti-Taliban warrior Ahmad Shah Massoud, of the Northern Alliance.