{"product_id":"spoils-1","title":"Spoils","description":"It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already-simmering insurgency intent on making Iraq the next graveyard of empires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn dazzling and propulsive prose, Brian Van Reet explores the lives on both sides of the battle lines: Cassandra, a nineteen-year-old gunner on an American Humvee who is captured during a deadly firefight and awakens in a prison cell; Abu Al-Hool, a lifelong mujahedeen beset by a simmering crisis of conscience as he struggles against enemies from without and within, including the new wave of far more radicalized jihadists; and Specialist Sleed, a tank crewman who goes along with a \"victimless\" crime, the consequences of which are more awful than any he could have imagined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDepicting a war spinning rapidly out of control, destined to become a modern classic, Spoils is an unsparing and morally complex novel that chronicles the achingly human cost of combat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The finest Iraq War novel yet written by an American\"-Wall Street Journal, 10 Best Novels of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An electrifying debut\" (The Economist) that maps the blurred lines between good and evil, soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished.","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49050790822143,"sku":"*R0086115*","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/16644703482300.jpg?v=1787165051","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/spoils-1","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}