How do you get information for your books?

How do you get information for your books?

Jason Burke (Author) gives expert video advice on: What's the book about?; Why did you write the book?; Was it hard to write the book? and more...

Most of my information comes from reporting on the ground. It's fairly old fashioned. It's going places and interviewing people. I was lucky in that, before 2001, I had spent a few years on the ground in Pakistan and Afghanistan talking to the Taliban, talking to the militants, and having astonishing access at that period to militancy. Subsequently that's become more difficult and sources are more difficult to come by.