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The Valley - A Novel (2015)
EN NWISBN: 9780525954866 bzw. 0525954864, in Englisch, Dutton Adult Penguin US, neu.
Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Versandkosten nach: Deutschland, Versandkostenfrei.
Syndikat Buchdienst, [4235284].
AUSFÜHRLICHERE BESCHREIBUNG: "You're going up the Valley."Black didn't know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst.When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn't know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon's dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land.The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time. BUCHBESPRECHUNG: Praise for The Valley "The Valley" is a puzzling mystery, a relentless action chronicle, a riddling brain-teaser-and a book that's hard to put down."- The Wall Street Journal"John Renehan's The Valley is both a gripping, tightly-wound mystery as well as a sharply observed look at the complex internal politics of the U.S. Army, the deterioration of men tasked with too vague a mission and too little support, and what happens when they trifle with the intricate power structures deep in the mountains of Afghanistan."-Phil Klay, New York Times bestselling author of Redeployment" The Valley is an acid-rock infused thriller, a police procedural camouflaged in a mind job."- The Los Angeles Review of Books"A military thriller packed with action and mystery...a must-read if you want a glimpse of the turmoil Americans faced in Afghanistan or if you just want a page-flipping good yarn."- Kirkus"The Valley" is a riveting, gut-wrenching tale destined to take its place alongside Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" and Philip Caputo's "A Rumor of War" as modern warfare classics that paint their word pictures in emotion as much as blood."- Providence Journal"The author served in Iraq but sets his debut novel in deepest and highest Afghanistan, in a premise that prompts comparisons to Joseph Conrad and Francis Ford Coppola. But his story, told with suspense and substance, stands alone."- Army Times/Marine Corps Times"Renehan has a fine eye for the etiquette of the Army, as delicate and complex as the rural aristocracy depicted in Jane Austen's novels."-- ForeignPolicy.com"John Renehan's The Valley is an absorbing novel of war that refuses to give easy answers or wallow in sentimental hero-worship. His characters talk the way real soldiers do, and he perfectly captures both the intensity of deployment and the blurred morality that can develop in remote outposts, under fire, far from home and family. The Valley belongs among the great novels of America's 21st century wars."-Kayla Williams, author of Love My Rifle More Than You"For readers who absolutely need a payoff, there's a big reveal at the end that wraps up almost all of the mystery's loose ends. But The Valley is really about how our vague mission in Afghanistan affects the men charged with carrying it out. That's what will stay with you once you've forgotten the details of the crimes solved in the novel."-Military.com" The Valley is rich with detail, compelling and complex."- Columbus Dispatch AUSZUG AUS DEM BUCH: Chapter 1"Dude, don't do it."Black startled and turned in his chair to see one of his least favorite people in the Army.Bradley Derr, twenty-four going on college freshman, slouched behind him with his hands in his uniform pockets, lip fat with dip, peering over Black's shoulder at the memo sitting out in the open on his desk. Black hadn't heard him approach. Hadn't even noticed as Derr placed the plastic soda bottle he used for his dip spit on the desk right next to Black's arm.He considered the bottle now as its two inches of dark brown fluid content came to rest. He turned slowly back to Derr and regarded him with a look that he thought was full of significance. It bounced right off Derr's sunburned forehead."Damn, Black, you lost in space or something?"He had been. Before Derr appeared he'd been staring for a long time at the same piece of paper that Derr now gestured to with a flip of his chin."Dude, I'm telling you. Don't do it."Derr was a lieutenant. A junior officer like Black. Unlike Black, he did not work behind a desk in the battalion's paperwork office. Derr spent most of his time outside the dreary midsize base where Black spent all of his time, stomping through the Afghan backhills with his platoon and shooting at people. It was precisely what Derr had imagined he would be doing when he set out to become an Army officer, and the universe had graciously given him no reason to question his assumptions.Once every couple of weeks he would come back to the base with his guys and spend a day or so crunching around gravel pathways in his sunglasses and eating at the chow hall. When he had paper- type business he needed help with, he made his way back to Black, to be found reliably behind his desk doing precisely the opposite of what he had imagined when he became an Army officer.Which was where Derr stood now, sunglasses inverted on the back of his head, looking down at Black with mild pity from beneath blond gel spikes."What do you need, Derr?""I need a hard copy of my pay stub so I can show the bitchwife I ain't holding out on her."Derr considered himself a laugh riot, in addition to handsome and suave. Apparently some misguided young lady somewhere back in the United States thought so too. Derr was, inexplicably, married."Bitchwife" was only one of the fond names by which Black had come to know Derr's beloved. She was also, depending on the day, "fuckslut," "my opinion," or "the 'ho,' " along with other names Black cared to forget. It occurred to him that he did not actually know the unfortunate girl's name."Such deep respect," he said blandly as he turned to his computer.Derr snorted."Pfft! You should hear what she makes me call her in bed."He laughed and sent a fresh muddy slug into his dip bottle. He was proud of his ability to spit shining wads of tobacco phlegm cleanly through a two-centimeter Coke bottle opening, straight to the tidy puddle at the bottom, without leaving the brown residue often seen trickling down the insides of such receptacles. Derr considered this, alone among all aspects of the Army's second-favorite pastime after smoking, to be unsightly."You know," he said, "that's funny, Black, because 'Deep Respect' is actually our name for one of our things she makes me do."He adopted an athletic stance and prepared an expressive tableau."I sort of get her by the legs right here, and-""Why don't I print your thing."Derr shrugged."Suit yourself, bud. Deep Respect's good stuff, though. Works every time."Black did not ask and tried not to wonder what "works" meant. He called up Derr's records and printed off his most recent Leave and Earnings Statement. He observed that, as fellow first lieutenants, he and Derr made precisely the same amount of money. Who shoul, Buch, gebundene Ausgabe.
Syndikat Buchdienst, [4235284].
AUSFÜHRLICHERE BESCHREIBUNG: "You're going up the Valley."Black didn't know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst.When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn't know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon's dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land.The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time. BUCHBESPRECHUNG: Praise for The Valley "The Valley" is a puzzling mystery, a relentless action chronicle, a riddling brain-teaser-and a book that's hard to put down."- The Wall Street Journal"John Renehan's The Valley is both a gripping, tightly-wound mystery as well as a sharply observed look at the complex internal politics of the U.S. Army, the deterioration of men tasked with too vague a mission and too little support, and what happens when they trifle with the intricate power structures deep in the mountains of Afghanistan."-Phil Klay, New York Times bestselling author of Redeployment" The Valley is an acid-rock infused thriller, a police procedural camouflaged in a mind job."- The Los Angeles Review of Books"A military thriller packed with action and mystery...a must-read if you want a glimpse of the turmoil Americans faced in Afghanistan or if you just want a page-flipping good yarn."- Kirkus"The Valley" is a riveting, gut-wrenching tale destined to take its place alongside Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" and Philip Caputo's "A Rumor of War" as modern warfare classics that paint their word pictures in emotion as much as blood."- Providence Journal"The author served in Iraq but sets his debut novel in deepest and highest Afghanistan, in a premise that prompts comparisons to Joseph Conrad and Francis Ford Coppola. But his story, told with suspense and substance, stands alone."- Army Times/Marine Corps Times"Renehan has a fine eye for the etiquette of the Army, as delicate and complex as the rural aristocracy depicted in Jane Austen's novels."-- ForeignPolicy.com"John Renehan's The Valley is an absorbing novel of war that refuses to give easy answers or wallow in sentimental hero-worship. His characters talk the way real soldiers do, and he perfectly captures both the intensity of deployment and the blurred morality that can develop in remote outposts, under fire, far from home and family. The Valley belongs among the great novels of America's 21st century wars."-Kayla Williams, author of Love My Rifle More Than You"For readers who absolutely need a payoff, there's a big reveal at the end that wraps up almost all of the mystery's loose ends. But The Valley is really about how our vague mission in Afghanistan affects the men charged with carrying it out. That's what will stay with you once you've forgotten the details of the crimes solved in the novel."-Military.com" The Valley is rich with detail, compelling and complex."- Columbus Dispatch AUSZUG AUS DEM BUCH: Chapter 1"Dude, don't do it."Black startled and turned in his chair to see one of his least favorite people in the Army.Bradley Derr, twenty-four going on college freshman, slouched behind him with his hands in his uniform pockets, lip fat with dip, peering over Black's shoulder at the memo sitting out in the open on his desk. Black hadn't heard him approach. Hadn't even noticed as Derr placed the plastic soda bottle he used for his dip spit on the desk right next to Black's arm.He considered the bottle now as its two inches of dark brown fluid content came to rest. He turned slowly back to Derr and regarded him with a look that he thought was full of significance. It bounced right off Derr's sunburned forehead."Damn, Black, you lost in space or something?"He had been. Before Derr appeared he'd been staring for a long time at the same piece of paper that Derr now gestured to with a flip of his chin."Dude, I'm telling you. Don't do it."Derr was a lieutenant. A junior officer like Black. Unlike Black, he did not work behind a desk in the battalion's paperwork office. Derr spent most of his time outside the dreary midsize base where Black spent all of his time, stomping through the Afghan backhills with his platoon and shooting at people. It was precisely what Derr had imagined he would be doing when he set out to become an Army officer, and the universe had graciously given him no reason to question his assumptions.Once every couple of weeks he would come back to the base with his guys and spend a day or so crunching around gravel pathways in his sunglasses and eating at the chow hall. When he had paper- type business he needed help with, he made his way back to Black, to be found reliably behind his desk doing precisely the opposite of what he had imagined when he became an Army officer.Which was where Derr stood now, sunglasses inverted on the back of his head, looking down at Black with mild pity from beneath blond gel spikes."What do you need, Derr?""I need a hard copy of my pay stub so I can show the bitchwife I ain't holding out on her."Derr considered himself a laugh riot, in addition to handsome and suave. Apparently some misguided young lady somewhere back in the United States thought so too. Derr was, inexplicably, married."Bitchwife" was only one of the fond names by which Black had come to know Derr's beloved. She was also, depending on the day, "fuckslut," "my opinion," or "the 'ho,' " along with other names Black cared to forget. It occurred to him that he did not actually know the unfortunate girl's name."Such deep respect," he said blandly as he turned to his computer.Derr snorted."Pfft! You should hear what she makes me call her in bed."He laughed and sent a fresh muddy slug into his dip bottle. He was proud of his ability to spit shining wads of tobacco phlegm cleanly through a two-centimeter Coke bottle opening, straight to the tidy puddle at the bottom, without leaving the brown residue often seen trickling down the insides of such receptacles. Derr considered this, alone among all aspects of the Army's second-favorite pastime after smoking, to be unsightly."You know," he said, "that's funny, Black, because 'Deep Respect' is actually our name for one of our things she makes me do."He adopted an athletic stance and prepared an expressive tableau."I sort of get her by the legs right here, and-""Why don't I print your thing."Derr shrugged."Suit yourself, bud. Deep Respect's good stuff, though. Works every time."Black did not ask and tried not to wonder what "works" meant. He called up Derr's records and printed off his most recent Leave and Earnings Statement. He observed that, as fellow first lieutenants, he and Derr made precisely the same amount of money. Who shoul, Buch, gebundene Ausgabe.
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The Valley
EN PB NWISBN: 9780451471864 bzw. 0451471865, in Englisch, Dutton Books, Taschenbuch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
bargain book, remainder book, book, reading, An intricate mystery unfolds against the backdrop of the Afghanistan war in this former Army Captain's gripping portrait of a fighting division holding a remote outpost. "You're going up the Valley." Black didn't know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn't know is that the warning shot was not the worst crime in the Valley before his arrival, and his investigation will not only disturb the platoon's dark secrets but launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery. Paperback.
bargain book, remainder book, book, reading, An intricate mystery unfolds against the backdrop of the Afghanistan war in this former Army Captain's gripping portrait of a fighting division holding a remote outpost. "You're going up the Valley." Black didn't know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn't know is that the warning shot was not the worst crime in the Valley before his arrival, and his investigation will not only disturb the platoon's dark secrets but launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery. Paperback.
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The Valley
EN NWISBN: 9780525954866 bzw. 0525954864, in Englisch, E. P. Dutton, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, neu.
Lieferung aus: Schweiz, zzgl. Versandkosten, Versandfertig innert 3 Wochen.
A Novel, Named one of Wall Street Journal 's Best Books of 2015 Selected as a Military Times 's Best Book of the Year "You're going up the Valley." Black didn't know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn't know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon's dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land. The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time.
A Novel, Named one of Wall Street Journal 's Best Books of 2015 Selected as a Military Times 's Best Book of the Year "You're going up the Valley." Black didn't know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn't know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon's dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land. The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time.
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The Valley: A Novel
EN NWISBN: 9780451471864 bzw. 0451471865, in Englisch, Penguin Publishing Group, neu.
Lieferung aus: Kanada, In Stock, plus shipping.
John Renehan, Books, The Valley: A Novel, *Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015*Selected as a Military Times's Best Book of the YearAn intricate mystery unfolds against the backdrop of the Afghanistan war in this former Army Captain's gripping portrait of a fighting division holding a remote outpost. You're going up the Valley.Black didn't know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst.When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn't know is that the warning shot was not the worst crime in the Valley before his arrival, and his investigation will not only disturb the platoon's dark secrets but launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery.The Valley is a mind-bending mystery and a riveting tour de force that announces John Renehan as a great American storyteller.
John Renehan, Books, The Valley: A Novel, *Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015*Selected as a Military Times's Best Book of the YearAn intricate mystery unfolds against the backdrop of the Afghanistan war in this former Army Captain's gripping portrait of a fighting division holding a remote outpost. You're going up the Valley.Black didn't know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst.When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn't know is that the warning shot was not the worst crime in the Valley before his arrival, and his investigation will not only disturb the platoon's dark secrets but launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery.The Valley is a mind-bending mystery and a riveting tour de force that announces John Renehan as a great American storyteller.
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The Valley (2015)
EN HC US FEISBN: 9780525954866 bzw. 0525954864, in Englisch, 448 Seiten, Dutton, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, Erstausgabe.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Usually ships in 1-2 business days.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, buymeimcheap.
*Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015 *Selected as a Military Times's Best Book of the Year “You’re going up the Valley.” Black didn’t know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn’t know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon’s dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land. The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time. Hardcover, Ausgabe: 1St Edition, Label: Dutton, Dutton, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2015-03-10, Freigegeben: 2015-03-10, Studio: Dutton, Verkaufsrang: 488538.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, buymeimcheap.
*Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015 *Selected as a Military Times's Best Book of the Year “You’re going up the Valley.” Black didn’t know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn’t know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon’s dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land. The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time. Hardcover, Ausgabe: 1St Edition, Label: Dutton, Dutton, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2015-03-10, Freigegeben: 2015-03-10, Studio: Dutton, Verkaufsrang: 488538.
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The Valley (2015)
EN HC NW FEISBN: 9780525954866 bzw. 0525954864, in Englisch, 448 Seiten, Dutton, gebundenes Buch, neu, Erstausgabe.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Usually ships in 1-2 business days.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Discount Deal Mart.
*Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015 *Selected as a Military Times's Best Book of the Year “You’re going up the Valley.” Black didn’t know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn’t know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon’s dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land. The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time. Hardcover, Ausgabe: 1St Edition, Label: Dutton, Dutton, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2015-03-10, Freigegeben: 2015-03-10, Studio: Dutton, Verkaufsrang: 488538.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Discount Deal Mart.
*Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015 *Selected as a Military Times's Best Book of the Year “You’re going up the Valley.” Black didn’t know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn’t know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon’s dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land. The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time. Hardcover, Ausgabe: 1St Edition, Label: Dutton, Dutton, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2015-03-10, Freigegeben: 2015-03-10, Studio: Dutton, Verkaufsrang: 488538.
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The Valley (2015)
EN HC US FEISBN: 9780525954866 bzw. 0525954864, in Englisch, 448 Seiten, Dutton, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, Erstausgabe.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Usually ships in 1-2 business days.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books: West.
*Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015 *Selected as a Military Times's Best Book of the Year “You’re going up the Valley.” Black didn’t know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn’t know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon’s dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land. The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time. Hardcover, Ausgabe: 1St Edition, Label: Dutton, Dutton, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2015-03-10, Freigegeben: 2015-03-10, Studio: Dutton, Verkaufsrang: 488538.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books: West.
*Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015 *Selected as a Military Times's Best Book of the Year “You’re going up the Valley.” Black didn’t know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn’t know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon’s dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land. The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time. Hardcover, Ausgabe: 1St Edition, Label: Dutton, Dutton, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2015-03-10, Freigegeben: 2015-03-10, Studio: Dutton, Verkaufsrang: 488538.
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