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Sheepdogs

A Novel

by Elliot Ackerman ...

**“You know Slow Horses—now meet the Sheepdogs.” —The Sunday Times (London)Two Misfits. One Mission. Zero Back-Up. • When a high-stakes heist goes wrong, an ex-CIA operative and a special operations pilot find themselves in the middle of a game of espionage and survival as they navigate a treacherous web of deception and shifting loyalties in a globe-spanning, action-packed thriller from the New ... Read more

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**“You know Slow Horses—now meet the Sheepdogs.” —The Sunday Times (London)Two Misfits. One Mission. Zero Back-Up. • When a high-stakes heist goes wrong, an ex-CIA operative and a special operations pilot find themselves in the middle of a game of espionage and survival as they navigate a treacherous web of deception and shifting loyalties in a globe-spanning, action-packed thriller from the New
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Dark at the Crossing

A novel

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**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST“Transports readers into a world few Americans know” —Washington Post**A timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria.Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST“Transports readers into a world few Americans know” —Washington Post**A timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria.Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's
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Waiting for Eden

A novel

by Elliot Ackerman ...

“Patiently, and unflinchingly, Ackerman is becoming one of the great poet laureates of America’s tragic adventurism across the globe.” —Pico IyerEden lies in a hospital bed, unable to move or speak. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his room. We see them through the eyes of Eden’s best friend, a fellow Marine who didn’t make it back home—and who must relive the secrets held between all ... Read more

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“Patiently, and unflinchingly, Ackerman is becoming one of the great poet laureates of America’s tragic adventurism across the globe.” —Pico IyerEden lies in a hospital bed, unable to move or speak. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his room. We see them through the eyes of Eden’s best friend, a fellow Marine who didn’t make it back home—and who must relive the secrets held between all
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The Fifth Act

America's End in Afghanistan

by Elliot Ackerman ...

**“The American betrayal of Afghanistan took twenty years. Elliot Ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing honesty in this intensely personal chronicle.” —George PackerA powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacy**Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his ... Read more

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**“The American betrayal of Afghanistan took twenty years. Elliot Ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing honesty in this intensely personal chronicle.” —George PackerA powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacy**Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his
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Green on Blue

A Novel

by Elliot Ackerman ...

From the author of Waiting for Eden and the National Book Award Finalist Dark at the Crossing, a “compassionate, provocative, and alive” (Vogue.com) debut war story about a young Afghan orphan, “Green on Blue is harrowing, brutal, and utterly absorbing. With spare prose, Ackerman has spun a morally complex tale of revenge, loyalty, and brotherly love” (Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner) ... Read more

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From the author of Waiting for Eden and the National Book Award Finalist Dark at the Crossing, a “compassionate, provocative, and alive” (Vogue.com) debut war story about a young Afghan orphan, “Green on Blue is harrowing, brutal, and utterly absorbing. With spare prose, Ackerman has spun a morally complex tale of revenge, loyalty, and brotherly love” (Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner)
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Red Dress in Black and White

A novel

by Elliot Ackerman ...

From the widely acclaimed author of Waiting for Eden: a stirring, timely new novel that unfolds over the course of a single day in Istanbul: the story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey--to leave without her husband.Catherine has been married for many years to Murat, an influential Turkish real estate developer, and they have a young son together, William. But when ... Read more

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From the widely acclaimed author of Waiting for Eden: a stirring, timely new novel that unfolds over the course of a single day in Istanbul: the story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey--to leave without her husband.Catherine has been married for many years to Murat, an influential Turkish real estate developer, and they have a young son together, William. But when
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Places and Names

On War, Revolution, and Returning

by Elliot Ackerman ...

**One of NPR's Best Books of 2019“Lyrical . . . A thoughtful perspective on America’s role overseas.” —Washington PostFrom a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.**“War hath determined us.” —John Milton, Paradise LostToward the beginning of Places and Names, ... Read more

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**One of NPR's Best Books of 2019“Lyrical . . . A thoughtful perspective on America’s role overseas.” —Washington PostFrom a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.**“War hath determined us.” —John Milton, Paradise LostToward the beginning of Places and Names,
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2034

by Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis USN ...

Series series A Novel of Future War
**An instant New York Times Bestseller!“Consider this another vaccine against disaster. Fortunately, this dose won't cause a temporary fever—and it happens to be a rippingly good read.” —Wired“This crisply written and well-paced book reads like an all-caps warning for a world shackled to the machines we carry in our pockets and place on our laps . . ." —The Washington PostFrom two former military ... Read more

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**An instant New York Times Bestseller!“Consider this another vaccine against disaster. Fortunately, this dose won't cause a temporary fever—and it happens to be a rippingly good read.” —Wired“This crisply written and well-paced book reads like an all-caps warning for a world shackled to the machines we carry in our pockets and place on our laps . . ." —The Washington PostFrom two former military
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Istanbul Letters

by Elliot Ackerman ...

Series series A Vintage Short
A Vintage Shorts Original Selection“Why do some forms of violence—the beheading of journalists by the Islamic State, a bombing in Ankara, or the attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando—make us feel so threatened, while other forms—the 372 separate mass shootings in America in 2015 or the 4,219 Syrians killed that same September—do little to challenge our sense of safety?”From his base in Istanbul, ... Read more

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A Vintage Shorts Original Selection“Why do some forms of violence—the beheading of journalists by the Islamic State, a bombing in Ankara, or the attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando—make us feel so threatened, while other forms—the 372 separate mass shootings in America in 2015 or the 4,219 Syrians killed that same September—do little to challenge our sense of safety?”From his base in Istanbul,
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Halcyon

A novel

by Elliot Ackerman ...

A daring new novel, at once timely and timeless, set around an American family and the ever-shifting sands of history and memory and legacy that define them (“An expert juggling act.” —Stephen Markley, New York Times Book Review)Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the Virginia estate of renowned lawyer, family patriarch, and World War II hero Robert Ableson. It’s 2004, and ... Read more

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A daring new novel, at once timely and timeless, set around an American family and the ever-shifting sands of history and memory and legacy that define them (“An expert juggling act.” —Stephen Markley, New York Times Book Review)Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the Virginia estate of renowned lawyer, family patriarch, and World War II hero Robert Ableson. It’s 2004, and
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2054

by Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis USN ...

Series series A Novel of Future War
From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America’s violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country, and the worldIt is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the ... Read more

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From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America’s violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country, and the worldIt is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the
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The Fifth Act

America's End in Afghanistan

by Elliot Ackerman ...

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**“The American betrayal of Afghanistan took twenty years. Elliot Ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing honesty in this intensely personal chronicle.” —George PackerA powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacy**Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his ... Read more

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**“The American betrayal of Afghanistan took twenty years. Elliot Ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing honesty in this intensely personal chronicle.” —George PackerA powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacy**Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his
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