Yvonne Ridley is the burka-clad Express reporter who was captured donkey-riding on the wrong side of the Afghan border shortly before the US bombing began last October. She was banged up for 11 days before being set free by her "courteous and respectful" Taliban captors. Ridley wrote a few hundred thousand words on the subject in her paper on her return, but it was only in her subsequent book that one really got a sense of how long and truly terrifying those 11 days were, although of course, as she never fails to point out, the Taliban were very polite....