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On a quiet morning in California, a lone gunman opens fire on a busload of children headed for a field trip, then turns the gun on himself. Forensic psychiatrist Leander Heartwood and special agent Gabriel Chin team up to investigate the case, seeking at first only to solve this single disturbing crime but in time delving into issues of race, morality, and the complex forces at work in all horrifying acts of violence. Part mystery, part psychological thriller, part piercing social commentary, Equation for Evil is a riveting and incisive meditation on violence and the nature of evil.
The first memoir of the Vietnam War and an all-time classic of war literature |40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION| In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole but emotionally destroyed, his youthful idealism shattered. A decade later, having reported first-hand the very final hours of the war, Caputo sat down to write 'simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them'. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest war memoirs of all time. ____________________ 'A singular and marvellous work - a soldier's-eye account that tells us, as no other book that I can think of has done, what it was actually like to be fighting in this hellish jungle' The New York Times 'Unparalleled in its honesty, unapologetic in its candour and singular in its insights into the minds and hearts of men in combat, this book is as powerful to read today as the day it was published in 1977. Caputo has more than earned his place beside Sassoon, Owen, Vonnegut, and Heller' Kevin Powers 'To call this the best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it. A Rumour of War is a dangerous and even subversive book, the first to insist that readers asks themselves the questions: How would I have acted? To what lengths would I have gone to survive? A terrifying book, it will make the strongest among us weep' Los Angeles Times Book Review 'Caputo's troubled, searching meditations on the love and the hate of war, on fear and the ambivalent discord warfare can create in the hearts of decent men are amongst the most eloquent I have read in modern literature' New York Review of Books 'Superb. At times it is hard to remember that this is not a novel' New Statesman
Philip Caputo has been a witness to the most important struggles of
our time, from the hot green hell of Vietnam to the dusty mountains
of Afghanistan and the bloodstained streets of Beirut. In Means of
Eascape, Caputo intersperses imaginative retellings of events he
witnessed with true accounts of how he became a writer, and what
happened when he was sent to some of the most dangerous places in
the world. He begins with his childhood and budding career in
Chicago. Soon after, he was deep in the Sinai Peninsula searching
for the last authentic Bedouin, and reporting from the front lines
of the Yom Kippur War. In an eerie parallel to journalist Daniel
Pearl's tragic murder, Caputo was held hostage for a week by
Islamic extremists while reporting in Beirut. Caputo's palpable
descriptions of the captors and fellow cellmates in this razor-thin
existence are as compelling as any escape stroy before or since. As
he emerged from captivity, Peter Jennings congratulated him on his
eventual escape, and on the Pulizer Prize he'd won while
imprisoned. While continuing his work as a reporter in Beirut, he
was singled out by a sniper, and received a bullet in his ankle and
a chunk of wall in his head. In Afghanistan in the 1980s, he joined
the Mujahideen for a clandestine mission and was nearly captured by
Soviet forces. Few authors have put themselves so squarely in the
center of the 20th century's great conflicts, and even fewer can
describe what they saw as well as Philip Caputo does in this
important memoir. (6 x 9, 416 pages)Philip Caputo is the author of
the New York Times best-seller A Rumor of War and three novels:
Indian Country, DelCorso's Gallery, and Horn of Africa. He won the
PulitzerPrize in 1972 as part of an investigative team for the
Chicago Tribune, and his coverage of his experience as a captive of
Palestinian guerrillas won him the Overseas Press Club's George
Polk Citation.
Indian Country""is a sweeping, brave and compassionate story from
one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the Vietnam
experience.
When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he realizes he’s a mercenary, however, he is not at all concerned. Ever since his young secretary was killed by a grenade at their bureau office in Beirut a couple of years before, he has lost all volition. Which is why he so readily capitulates not only to Colfax, but also, and more dangerously so, to every command of Jeremy Nordstrand, the mystical megalomaniac determined to achieve greatness on their seemingly suicidal mission. Set in the forsaken yet exotic deserts of Ethiopia, Horn of Africa is a vividly detailed and masterfully plotted novel chronicling a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the midst of a broken nation’s fight for stability and peace.
With Exiles, his first collection of shorter fiction, the author of the universally acclaimed, best-selling memoir A Rumor of War ("It will make the strongest among us weep", wrote John Gregory Dunne) sends the reader on a tripartite adventure.
Thirty years ago, Pulitzer Prize--winning author and journalist
Philip Caputo crossed the deserts of Sudan and Eritrea on foot and
camelback, a journey that inspired his first novel, "Horn of
Africa, and awakened a lifelong fascination with Africa. His
travels have since taken him back to Sudan, as well as to Kenya,
Somalia, and Tanzania, and from those experiences he has fashioned
"Acts of Faith, his most ambitious novel. A stunning and timely
epic, it tells the stories of pilots, aid workers, missionaries,
and renegades struggling to relieve the misery wrought by the civil
war in Sudan.
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