{"product_id":"spoils-9780316316163","title":"Spoils","description":"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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Depicting a war spinning rapidly out of control, destined to become a modern classic, \u003ci\u003eSpoils\u003c\/i\u003e is an unsparing and morally complex novel that chronicles the achingly human cost of combat. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The finest Iraq War novel yet written by an American\"-\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, 10 Best Novels of the Year \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An electrifying debut\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e) that maps the blurred lines between good and evil, soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished.","brand":"Lee Boudreaux Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51391493570865,"sku":"9780316316163","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/2420\/2801\/files\/O_a64f2a08-e480-4bb6-886e-10cb6b12d7c8.jpg?v=1771995682","url":"https:\/\/pageaday.com\/products\/spoils-9780316316163","provider":"Page-A-Day","version":"1.0","type":"link"}