When the din of Pakistan's most notorious weapons market becomes overwhelming, arms dealer Muhammad Jahanzeb slinks away from his stall, past colleagues test-firing machine guns, to read in the hush of the local library. "I go there and read books. I like and take them home. Sometimes I return them late and the librarian gets angry," says the 28-year-old as he shows off his inventory of vintage rifles. The town of Darra Adamkhel is part of the deeply conservative tribal belt where decades of militancy and drug-running in the surrounding mountains earned it a reputation as a "wild west" waypoint between Pakistan and Afghanistan. But a short walk from the bristling market a town library is thriving -- offering loans of less contraband fare, such as Virginia Woolf's classic "Mrs. Dalloway" and installments in the teenage Vampire romance "Twilight" series. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES