| Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier | |
| Author: | Joel Hafvenstein |
| Cover Artist: | Georgianna Goodwin |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Afghanistan, opium trade, travel |
| Publisher: | The Lyons Press |
| Release Date: | November 1, 2007 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages: | 336 |
| Isbn: | 978-1-59921-131-2 |
| Dewey: | 958.104/7 22 |
| Congress: | DS371.4 .H32 2007 |
| Oclc: | 148949291 |
Opium Season is the true story of a young American in Afghanistan running an aid program to counter the opium trade.[1] [2] [3]
Joel Hafvenstein signed up for a year in Afghanistan in the heart of the country's opium trade, running an American-funded aid program to help thousands of opium poppy farmers make a legal living, and to win hearts and minds away from the former Taliban government. The author was soon caught up in the machinations of Helmand's drug trafficking warlords.