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Title Statement | The first stone / Carsten Jensen ; translated by Mark Mussari. |
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Author | Jensen, Carsten, 1952- |
Additional Contributors | Mussari, Mark |
Publication | Seattle: AmazonCrossing,[2019]©2019 |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 569 pages |
ISBN | 1542044391 9781542044394 |
Other Number | 3571508 |
General Notes | Translation of: Den første sten by Gyldendal in Denmark in 2015. Translated from the Danish. |
Summary | Dispatched to fight the Taliban as part of the NATO forces, the soldiers of the Third Platoon arrive in a desert hell intent on testing their courage and endurance. Among them are the charismatic platoon leader Schrøder, a former games designer fascinated by the imaginative potential of war; Colonel Steffensen, whose negotiating tactics will have deadly consequences; Sidekick, the LifeLogger whose online "war memorial" will blur into horror; and the hardened but vulnerable Hannah, who must bury her womanhood--or sacrifice her soul. Confronted by a betrayal that no military training could prepare them for, the soldiers must embark on a desperate mission to track down an enemy whose methods are as murderous as they are unfathomable. As the hunters become the hunted, the mission turns into a depraved, hallucinatory voyage into an Afghanistan they never knew existed. With the Third Platoon's most fundamental notions of good and evil called into question, survival becomes their only mission. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Soldiers--Fiction--Afghanistan |
Desert warfare--Fiction | |
Fellowship--Fiction | |
Survival--Fiction | |
By Name | North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Fiction--Armed Forces |
By Location | Afghanistan--Fiction |
By Genre | War stories |