The Knife

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The Knife

A powerful, dark, and morally provocative debut novel about a U.S. Special Forces unit operating in the Middle East, written by a former soldierâ€”No Easy Day meets Redeploymentâ€¦

Itâ€™s hot and getting hotter this summer in Afghanipakiraqistanâ€”the preferred name for the ambiguous stretch of the world where the U.S. Special Forces operate with little outside attention. Team Leader Dutch Shaw is missing his late grandmother. She was the last link he had to civilian life, to any kind of world of innocence.

But thereâ€™s no time to mourn. After two helicopters in a sister squadron are shot down, Shaw and his team know that theyâ€™re going to be spun up and sent back in, deep into insurgent territory, where a mysterious new organization called Al Ayeelaa has been attracting high-value targets from across the region. As Shaw and his men fight their way closer to the source, mission by mission, they begin to realize that their way may have been prepared for them in advance, and not by a welcoming host.

The KnifeÂ is a debut novel of intense authenticity by a former soldier in a United States Special Operations Command direct-action team. As scenes of horseshoes and horseplay cut to dim Ambien-soaked trips in helicopters and beyond, Ritchellâ€™s story takes us deep beneath the testosterone-laced patter into the lonelier, more ambivalent world of military life in the Middle East. The result is a fast-paced journey into darkness; a quintessential novel of the American wars of the twenty-first century.
Country USA
Manufacturer Blue Rider Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2015-02-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780399173400

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Blue Rider Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2015-02-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780399173400

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