| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780375760204 | | Publisher: Random House Trade | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30919272 | | Item#: RDGHSN | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.75H x 5L x 0.5T | | Pages: 272 |
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| | | From the dean of AmericaUs military correspondents and the author of "Making the Corps, " this novel is "a briskly paced, engrossing tale" ("Los Angeles Times") about an explosive power struggle inside the Pentagon and a 21st century war in Afghanistan.
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Set in the near future, this military thriller details a dangerous U.S. peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. Pentagon officials John Shillingsworth and B.Z. Ames go head to head over their differing views of how best to deploy American troops, while, halfway around the world, American soldiers battle the Afghanis.
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Memorial Bridge
Before dawn, Friday, July 8 The U.S. military is headquartered in Washington, but it is not of Washington.Its heart lies a thousand miles away, or more-in the Army, at Fort Leavenworth;in the Air Force, along a dozen different runways in the South and Southwest; inthe Navy, in Norfolk, San Diego and Pearl Harbor. For most in Washington,Congress is the engine that drives daily life. When Congress is in session,there is an extra energy in Washington's downtown. When Congress is"in," people work later hours, and spouses are often missing at dinnerparties. But even so, the pace is generally the pace of Congress-rising late andnot engaging the world until about ten in the morning. The military sticks byits own timetable in Washington, one that pre-dates democracy. It is a scheduleset on thousands of battlefields, where the most dangerous time of day is justbefore sunrise, when it is light enough to attack but s Click to read more...
Excerpt
Memorial Bridge
Before dawn, Friday, July 8 The U.S. military is headquartered in Washington, but it is not of Washington.Its heart lies a thousand miles away, or more-in the Army, at Fort Leavenworth;in the Air Force, along a dozen different runways in the South and Southwest; inthe Navy, in Norfolk, San Diego and Pearl Harbor. For most in Washington,Congress is the engine that drives daily life. When Congress is in session,there is an extra energy in Washington's downtown. When Congress is"in," people work later hours, and spouses are often missing at dinnerparties. But even so, the pace is generally the pace of Congress-rising late andnot engaging the world until about ten in the morning. The military sticks byits own timetable in Washington, one that pre-dates democracy. It is a scheduleset on thousands of battlefields, where the most dangerous time of day is justbefore sunrise, when it is light enough to attack but still dark enough toconceal many movements. Even in Washington, the military rises in the darknessmost of the year and is at work by dawn. The effect of this is that the militaryhas the city largely to itself at that time of day.
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