Russia and America face each other across the northern border of Afghanistan. World War 3 is about to break out and no one is backing off.
And all because a team of academics in New York postulated how to extract the vast untapped mineral wealth of Afghanistan.
Steve Case is in the middle of it, and his position is looking very precarious. Will the Taliban find him before the Americans get him out? Or is he doomed, as is the rest of the world?