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Friend by day, enemy by night The book “Friend by day, enemy by night” written by Lincoln Keiser tries to illustrate for the reader the blood feuding concept in the Kohistani culture. Furthermore, it seeks to give explanations how this death enmity is constructed and deeply rooted in their society. For people who live in a western world this death enmity is very difficult and sometimes impossible to understand. Therefore, this book provides insight views into the complexity of the human life of the Thull community in Pakistan. It shows how this village that is falling apart from blood feuding still manages to keep itself together. These people live a totally different life, with completely different moral values than western socialist people do. Consequently, the understanding of their social behavior, cultural life and their social structure is very hard for westernized people. This study shows how death enmity (mar dusmani) rules the daily life of the Thull people. Woman play more than a passive role in the blood feud but Lincoln Keiser did not get the chance in his study to learn something about th