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Only two questions matter when it comes to reading and evaluating a war novel: is it honest? And does it glamorise war? Michael Pitre, the author of this accomplished and riveting first novel, seems to know this: it's evident in his refusal to offer easy answers and in his decision to make one of his three main characters Iraqi. How successful he is at conveying honesty about the Iraq war, however, is – like the war itself – questionable.
His tightly woven story follows three men, two US marines and one Iraqi, back and forth between their fighting days in 2006, one of the bloodiest years of the war, and their post-combat days in 2011. Lieutenant Pete Donovan and Corpsman Lester Pleasant are both southern boys from humble backgrounds, nice guys before the war got to them. The Iraqi is their platoon's interpreter, Kateb, AKA "Dodge", whose character is considerably more complicated.
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