{"product_id":"9780316316156","title":"Spoils","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The finest Iraq War novel yet written by an American\"-- \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, 10 Best Novels of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An electrifying debut\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e) that maps the blurred lines between good and evil, soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIt 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, \u003ci\u003eSpoils \u003c\/i\u003eis an unsparing and morally complex novel that chronicles the achingly human cost of combat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120862052592,"sku":"9780316316156","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316316156","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}