MATTHEW CLAYFIELD is like an Australian version of me.

He recently returned from a nail-biting trip through the North Caucasus—the blood-soaked region of Russia that includes North Ossetia and Chechnya—and published an inexpensive novella-length e-book about his experience called The Caucasian Semi-Circle: A Journey Along Russia’s Exposed Nerve.

It’s like a shorter version of my full-length book Where the West Ends.

I read his book and even blurbed it for him. Click here for an excerpt I published over at my place.