{"product_id":"book-c42k","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":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49349424480560,"sku":"BDc42k","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49349424513328,"sku":"ZEc42k","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/328970-c42k-Square.jpg?v=1734250265","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-c42k","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}