Ending a trilogy: Steve Coll on losing Afghanistan

• The trilogy began with "Ghost Wars," the Pulitzer-Prize winning account that traced the CIA's covert war against Soviet occupation during the 1980s, through the rise of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden, to the eve of the 9/11 attacks.
• "Directorate S," winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, opened on 9/11 and carried the history through 2016, to the eve of Donald Trump's election to the White House.

Details: No date set for the new book. The editor is Ann Godoff.  The agent is Melanie Jackson.