 He has written features on Wilfred Thesiger, Texan rattlesnake hunters, the Taliban and British-Asian Urdu poets.Hall's exclusive reports include a profile on Emma McCune, an English woman who married Southern Sudanese guerrilla commander Riek Machar; the draining of Iraq's marshes by Saddam Hussein, and a one-on-one with former Kurdish PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan in a Syrian safe house.He is the author of seven books and dozens of articles that have appeared in many British newspapers and magazines, including the "Times", "Sunday Times", "Daily Telegraph", "Observer" and "New Statesman".