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“A compelling combination of literate storytelling and action-packed thriller laced with humor.” — Library Journal (starred review)
 
Finalist for the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year
 
1991: One hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from war zones in part to avoid his lackluster marriage and a daughter he loves but cannot connect with; Arwood is an American private who might be an insufferable ignoramus or might be a genuine lunatic with a death wish—it's hard to tell. Desert Storm is over, peace has been declared, but as they argue about whether it makes sense to cross the nearest border in search of an ice cream, they become embroiled in a horrific attack in which a young local girl in a green dress is killed as they are trying to protect her.
 
The two men walk away into their respective lives. But something has cracked for them both. Twenty-two years later, in another place, in another war, they meet again and are offered an unlikely opportunity to redeem themselves when that same girl in green is found alive and in need of salvation. Or is she? 
 
“Swift, gripping, and mined with surprises…Arwood Hobbes is as intriguing an operative as Graham Greene's quiet American, but without the quiet.”—David Shafer, author of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
 
“[A] stellar, electrifying story with a knockout ending.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“A penetrating, poetic, and unexpectedly disarming book about the ageless conflict in the Middle East.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
 
“A Catch-22 for the twenty-first century.”—Madison Smartt Bell, National Book Award finalist and author of All Souls' Rising 
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“A compelling combination of literate storytelling and action-packed thriller laced with humor.” — Library Journal (starred review)
 
Finalist for the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year
 
1991: One hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from war zones in part to avoid his lackluster marriage and a daughter he loves but cannot connect with; Arwood is an American private who might be an insufferable ignoramus or might be a genuine lunatic with a death wish—it's hard to tell. Desert Storm is over, peace has been declared, but as they argue about whether it makes sense to cross the nearest border in search of an ice cream, they become embroiled in a horrific attack in which a young local girl in a green dress is killed as they are trying to protect her.
 
The two men walk away into their respective lives. But something has cracked for them both. Twenty-two years later, in another place, in another war, they meet again and are offered an unlikely opportunity to redeem themselves when that same girl in green is found alive and in need of salvation. Or is she? 
 
“Swift, gripping, and mined with surprises…Arwood Hobbes is as intriguing an operative as Graham Greene's quiet American, but without the quiet.”—David Shafer, author of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
 
“[A] stellar, electrifying story with a knockout ending.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“A penetrating, poetic, and unexpectedly disarming book about the ageless conflict in the Middle East.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
 
“A Catch-22 for the twenty-first century.”—Madison Smartt Bell, National Book Award finalist and author of All Souls' Rising 
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        Starred review from November 14, 2016
        Miller’s second novel (after Norwegian by Night) is a polished and powerful commentary on the effects of war on two men—an ambitious British journalist and a clueless American soldier who meet briefly in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War in 1991. Private Arwood Hobbes and Brit reporter Thomas Benton witness the slaughter of Shiite civilians by the Iraqi army and cannot prevent the cold-blooded murder of a young girl in a green dress. The experience haunts both men for years, but 22 years later, in 2013, shocking news footage of an insurgent attack in Iraq reunites the two men in a desperate and risky gambit to save a girl in a green dress shown in the video. Middle-aged Hobbes is energized to right an old wrong, and old, slow Benton is reluctant to get involved. Amid the dangerous Syrian, Iraqi, and Kurdish refugee crisis in northern Iraq, Hobbes and Benton team up with a U.N. refugee officer, but the men are captured by ISIL terrorists, beginning a deadly cat and mouse game of torture, intimidation, and negotiation. Benton doesn’t understand Hobbes’s obsession with the girl in the video or the unique skills he’s gained since 1991. This is an excellent depiction of the complicated Iraq-Syria situation, especially the desperate plight of refugees and the West’s failure to provide peace or relief. Miller caps his stellar, electrifying story with a knockout ending.

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        Starred review from October 15, 2016
        Haunted by a Saddam Hussein henchman's coldblooded execution of a young Shiite girl, British war reporter Thomas Benton and ex-GI Arwood Hobbes reunite in Iraq 22 years later to investigate the unlikely possibility that she is alive.The unlikely duo first meet in 1991, during the uneasy cease-fire following the first Gulf War. The 22-year-old Hobbes is on patrol at Checkpoint Zulu, 150 miles from the Kuwaiti border. Benton is on the prowl for unsanctioned information about ongoing conflicts. During an attempt to rescue Benton from a dangerous situation in a nearby town, the fearless (and feckless) Hobbes spots a frightened girl in a green dress and tries to get her out of harm's way as well. But a Baathist colonel, with Hobbes' gun pointed at his head--and in full view of U.S. soldiers--shoots her in the back. After beating up a lieutenant who berates him for daring to get involved in local matters, Hobbes is sent home without honor. Benton returns to an unhappy home life in England following a meaningful one-night fling with Marta, a sexy and stoic Swedish relief worker. In 2013, out of the blue, Hobbes invites the now-63-year-old reporter to join him in Kurdistan, convinced he saw their girl in green on Al Jazeera escaping a mortar attack. Her existence, or lack thereof, speaks to the fact that everything has changed in Iraq, and nothing has changed. The new emerging threat is ISIS, but the same grudge fights are being fought, scores of innocents are still on the run, and Westerners like our heroes are still getting abducted. As in his acclaimed debut, Norwegian by Night (2013), Miller brilliantly blends offbeat reflection and dark emotion, using pop-culture references ranging from Ferris Bueller to Winnie the Pooh to underscore the killing ironies of war. A penetrating, poetic, and unexpectedly disarming book about the ageless conflict in the Middle East by a writer who has made that topic his specialty.

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        Starred review from November 1, 2016
        Arwood Hobbes, a 22-year-old American infantryman, and Thomas Benton, a middle-aged British journalist, formed an odd bond immediately after Iraqi forces had been expelled from Kuwait in 1991. Their attempt to save a teenage Muslim girl in a green dress from a murderous attack by Saddam Hussein's troops fails, and they witness her murder by a smiling Iraqi colonel. The event formed their bond, and their failure robbed them both of some part of themselves. Fast-forward 22 years. Benton, now 63, facing divorce and surveying the end of his career, receives a phone call from Arwood, who demands that he come to Syria immediately. Arwood has seen the Girl in Green in a YouTube video; she's alive, and they have a shot at redemption. Arwood and Benton are improbable knights-errant. Benton is nearly a senior citizen, and the nowmiddle aged Arwood, while a successful arms merchant, still salts his speech with dated references to Klingons, Buckaroo Banzai, and Loggins and Messina songs. And yet the two make thoroughly beguiling action-adventure heroes, and Miller's knowledge of the chaotic and vicious Syrian civil war and the dogged efforts of NGO workers to care for the war's refugees set the scene brilliantly. The Girl in Green is a worthy follow-up to Miller's fine debut, Norwegian by Night (2013), which also stars an aging vet forced to reinvent himself.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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        In 1991 Iraq in the aftermath of Operation Desert Storm, British journalist Thomas Benton encounters Arwood Hobbes, a young American infantryman. Helpless to intervene, they witness an Iraqi colonel murder a girl in a green dress. Twenty-two years later a video gone viral shows a girl in a green dress possibly surviving a mortar attack in Iraq. This reunites the two men in a search for the girl and some sort of redemption. Benton, now 62, is weary of his life and marriage; Arwood, 44, is now an arms dealer with global contacts. Seeking information through relief organizations, refugees, and rebels, they pursue this elusive girl through treacherous territory. As in his first novel, Norwegian by Night, Miller portrays an attempt to save one person as atonement for not having saved another. His decades of experience in international relations support this sympathetic portrayal of clashing cultures, but it is the vividly drawn, often quirky characters and timely plot that fascinate. Arwood, like Joseph Heller's Yossarian in Catch-22, abhors authority; Benton learns to love again in the midst of appalling inhumanity. VERDICT Not to be missed, this is a compelling combination of literate storytelling and action-packed thriller laced with humor. [See Prepub Alert, 7/18/16; library promotion.]--Roland Person, formerly with Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale

        Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        August 1, 2016

        Miller's Norwegian by Night won a Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Dagger Award, plus multiple best book honors that includes Kirkus's Ten Best Crime Novels of 2013. But don't peg this new novel as a thriller; it deftly limns the consequences of war. When violence erupts in 1991 Iraq despite the recent peace treaty, British journalist Thomas Benton and possibly crazy American private Arwood Hobbes fail to save the life of a local girl dressed in green and disappear into their own lives, not meeting again for 22 years. Another war is on--and the girl in green seems very much alive. With a 30,000-copy first printing.

        Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Finalist for the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year
 
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