Timothy P. Martin
ASIN: B00W62K212
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 288
"A complex tale of the American experience in Afghanistan." "An interesting, gutsy, heart-wrenching story." "A journey within a journey through Afghanistan." "A tale of love and personal redemption.""Hank Garvey is a Viet Nam vet assigned to Harmez to report on any signs of progress following the American invasion. What Hank finds, though, is poverty, rampant cynicism, and the brutal rule of the warlord Akbar Khan. Meanwhile, he develops a deep romantic attachment to a Danish nurse named Illse Lillestrom, who embodies the mysteriousness and disaffectedness of Harmez itself. The plot is not the prime mover here. Instead, Hank's character keeps the reader drawn in: a former soldier and cop, he's not quite a hero; the inclination to heroism is but one ingredient in the complex brew that is his personality. Also, the setting, painted by the author in cinematographic detail, functions like a ...