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Public outrage fades into acceptance of occupation, while patriots regroup in small bands under Adam Durany, known as “Kara Kush, The Eagle.” Noor, Adam, David Khalil, Captain Azambai, and others fight through harsh mountains and deadly desert conditions, organizing victories and defending honor while denying the enemy the Golden Hoard of Ahmad Shah, framed with ancient legend.","Kara Kush  \nIn the depths of an Afghan winter the Russians, feared for centuries, descend upon Central Asia, bombing, blackmailing, terrorising the patchwork of peoples whose land extends from China to Iran.  \nThe world, at first outraged, soon settles back and accepts the occupation.  \nThen, in small bands, the patriots fight back. Rallied by Adam Durany – who is known as ‘Kara Kush, The Eagle’ – they struggle through the snows of the Hindu-Killer Mountains, fight in the sandstorms of the Desert of Death, slowly organise, and win one battle after another against the slow-moving Russian bear.  \nNoor and her childhood friend Adam are joined by the Australian David Khalil, by the Central Asian Captain Azambai – and by a horde of others. Together, they invoke the remarkable history and strange culture of this remote land, defending its people’s honour and denying the enemy the golden Hoard of Ahmad Shah, the greatest treasure the world has yet seen.  \nKara Kush depicts the present day struggle of the Afghan nation for survival. And woven into true stories of individual valour are glittering strands of ancient legend. In this, his first novel, Idries Shah, a writer of international stature, has created a tapestry of great originality and power.  \nBooks by Idries Shah  \nSufi Studies and Middle Eastern Literature  \nThe Sufis Caravan of Dreams The Way of the Sufi Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching-stories Over a Thousand Years Sufi Thought and Action  \nTraditional Psychology, Teaching Encounters and Narratives  \nThinkers of the East: Studies in Experientialism Wisdom of the Idiots The Dermis Probe Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way Knowing How to Know  \nThe Magic Monastery: Analogical and Action Philosophy  \nSeeker After Truth  \nObservations Evenings with Idries Shah The Commanding Self  \nUniversity Lectures  \nA Perfumed Scorpion (Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge and California University) Special Problems in the Study of Sufi Ideas (Sussex University) The Elephant in the Dark: Christianity, Islam and the Sufis (Geneva University) Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study: Beginning to Begin (The New School for Social Research) Letters and Lectures of Idries Shah  \nCurrent and Traditional Ideas  \nReflections The Book of the Book A Veiled Gazelle: Seeing How to See Special Illumination: The Sufi Use of Humour  \nThe Mulla Nasrudin Corpus  \nThe Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin The World of Nasrudin  \nTravel and Exploration  \nDestination Mecca  \nStudies in Minority Beliefs  \nThe Secret Lore of Magic Oriental Magic  \nSelected Folktales and Their Background  \nWorld Tales  \nA Novel  \nKara Kush  \nSociological Works  \nDarkest England The Natives Are Restless The Englishman’s Handbook  \nTranslated by Idries Shah  \nThe Hundred Tales of Wisdom (Aflaki’s Munaqib)  \nKara Kush  \nThe Gold of Ahmad Shah  \nIdries Shah  \nISF PUBLISHING  \nCopyright © The Estate of Idries Shah  \nThe right of the Estate of Idries Shah to be identified as the owner of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved Copyright throughout the world  \nISBN 978-1-78479-150-6  \nFirst published in 1986  \nPublished in this edition 2018  \nNo part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photographic, by recording or any information storage or retrieval system or method now known or tobe invented or adapted, without prior permission obtained in writing from the publisher, ISF Publishing, except by a reviewer quoting brief passagesin a review written for inclusion in a journal, magazine, newspaper, blog or  \nbroadcast.  \nRequests for permission to reprint, reproduce etc., to: The Permissions Department  \nISF Publishing  \nThe Idries Shah Foundation  \nP. 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