A powerful and thought-provoking collection of stories about men and
conflict.
Spanning centuries and continents, Mamet uses war and its players to
explore, among other themes, redemption and forgiveness as they unfold
in the context of conflict in the form of three novellas.
In The Redwing, the first of the three novellas, a 19th-century Secret
Service naval officer turned prisoner, then novelist, and finally
memoirist recounts his own transformations during the course of his
service and imprisonment.
The protagonist in Notes on Plain Warfare examines religion through
the prism of the American Indian wars. Finally, The Handle and the
Hold is a vivid, dialogue-driven tale of two ex-military men who steal
a plane in the month before the Israeli War of Independence.