Spoils.
Spoils.
By
:
Van Reet, Brian.
Publication Date
:
2017
Subject Term
:
Soldiers -- Fiction.
Prisoners of war -- Fiction.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Genre
:
War stories.
Summary
:
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 on making Iraq the next graveyard of empires. In dazzling and propulsive prose, Brian Van Reet explores the lives on both sides of the battle lines: Cassandra, 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 mujahedeen 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. Depicting a war spinning rapidly out of control, destined to become a modern classic, Spoils is an unsparing and morally complex novel that chronicles the achingly human cost of combat.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780316316163
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Stephenville (WST) (Kindale) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC VAN | Checked In |