Brian van Reet

Spoils

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already-smoldering insurgency intent of making Iraq the next graveyard of empires. This novel explores the lives on both sides of the battle lines: Cassandra Wigheard, a nineteen-year-old gunner on an American Humvee who is captured during a deadly firefight and awakens in a prison cell; Abu Al-Hool, a lifelong mujahideen beset by a simmering crisis of conscience as he struggles against enemies from without and within, including the next wave of far more radicalized jihadists; and Specialist Sleed, a tank crewman who goes along with a 'victimless' crime, the consequences of which are more awful than any he could have imagined

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9780316316170
• ISBN-10: 0316316172
• Artikelnr.: 48995298

Autorenporträt

Brian Van Reet was born in Houston. Following the September 11th attacks, he left the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar, and enlisted in the U.S. Army as a tank crewman. He served in Iraq under stop-loss orders, achieved the rank of sergeant, and was awarded a Bronze Star for valor. He has twice won the Texas Institute of Letters short story award. Spoils is his first novel.

Rezensionen

A brilliantly written account of kidnap and conquest in the early years of the Iraq war. Justine Jordan Guardian, Books of the Year