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Spoils: a novel
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New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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292 pages ; 25 cm
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FICTION Van Reet, B.
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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-simmering 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 new 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.
"The finest Iraq War novel yet written by an American"-Wall Street Journal, 10 Best Novels of the Year
"An electrifying debut" (The Economist) that maps the blurred lines between good and evil, soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished.
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English
ISBN:
9780316316170, 9780316316163, 0316316164

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"A Lee Boudreaux book."
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APA Citation (style guide)

Van Reet, B. (2017). Spoils: a novel. First edition. New York, Little, Brown and Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Van Reet, Brian. 2017. Spoils: A Novel. New York, Little, Brown and Company.

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Van Reet, Brian, Spoils: A Novel. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

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Van Reet, Brian. Spoils: A Novel. First edition. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

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