Casemate has a long history of publishing high quality military
history non-fiction. Lately, they have expanded their range of work to
include well written novels using wartime settings. - WWII History
Magazine
Patrolling the deadly roads of south-west Baghdad, a young US soldier
and his comrades face IEDs and ambushes on a near-daily basis, but the
longer he is in Baghdad, the more he begins to question where to look
for the real enemy.
At a dusty intersection in Baghdad, Sergeant Thomas Kirkland is seconds
away from unleashing a hail of bullets on a possible suicide bomber when
he's stopped by the unexpected--the piercing dark eyes of a young girl
sitting on her mother's lap in the passenger seat. For a split second
he'd held the life of this child and her family in his hands. Plagued by
fear and anxiety, Sergeant K struggles with his own inner demons as he
confronts a population around him that wishes him dead. But he confronts
more than just an external enemy, as he discovers the darkness that
exists not just within himself, but in his fellow soldiers.
A starkly honest and gut-wrenching account of the Iraq war from the
perspective of an infantry soldier patrolling the dusty and lethal roads
of south-west Baghdad. The threat of IEDs and ambushes are ever-present,
but as Sergeant K and his comrades soon learn, modern war can take many
shapes and forms. Grappling with a myriad of emotions--fear, anger,
confusion, and anxiety--they face many external threats, but they begin
to discover that the enemy within themselves can often be more
challenging and dangerous than the one they were sent to fight.
