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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The product of high intelligence and passionate conviction, alternately mournful and gripping, and occasionally hilarious. It's also a ripping good story.' --- Soho Weekly News The author, a veteran war correspondent and former prize-winning reporter with The New York Times, has called his new novel 'asymmetric journalism,' a new and original genre that melds real-time reporting with literary fiction. A bright and privileged young American, Micah Ford, is battered by the great tragedies of modern America. He loses his mother, a nurse, to AIDS. His father is killed on 9/11, and a grandfather dies in Katrina. A girlfriend is murdered in a hate-crime in the Deep South. Micah's biography overlaps his country's: They're both suffering from post-traumatic stress. Both are squarely 'on the X.' Enlisting in the Army, he discovers a new clarity, nothing less than a new life, through the extreme violence he encounters during a secret mission against ISIS in Iraq. Torture, love, betrayal, a miracle or two, luck, American swagger, Islamist brutality, and a final compass-reading from valor --- it's all in here, in a book that one reviewer has found 'alarming, poignant and nothing short of brilliant.' Another critic called it 'war porn, or war smut, something akin to pictures of flag-draped coffins returning home: colorful and descriptive, but also prurient.'.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorMark McDonald is a veteran journalist, foreign correspondent and bureau chief. He has worked for Knight Ridder Newspapers, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Dallas Morning.

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