Goat Game: Thirteen Tales from the Afghan Frontier
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (925 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1479320471 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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That's why he's channeled his experience into a fictional Special Forces Officer who strides through these 13 interconnected stories about modern Afghanistan like a low-profile Lawrence of Arabia. Walker has written stories that do justice to the complexity and history of the Afghan people while attempting to convey what it was like to be an American soldier in an absurd war. - Tony Norman / Pittsburgh Post-GazettePeer beyond the veil of the Afghan Frontier for knowledge missing from your history lessons.-Military Writers Society of America . Mr. Col. Wickliffe "Wick" Walker (U.S. Army, retired) understands Afghanistan better than any Westerner has a right to. Named to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2013Lt
He is a Fellow of The Explorers Club and the author of Courting the Diamond Sow: A Whitewater Expedition on Tibet’s Forbidden River (National Geographic Adventure Press). He and his wife raise horses on a small farm in southwestern Pennsylvania. Army, retired) is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School. Lieutenan
General readers with an interest in international affairs will find Goat Game a riveting, beyond-the-headlines depiction of that enigmatic theater of war. Schroen, leader of the first joint CIA/military team in Afghanistan following 9/11Goat Game presents the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan with originality and unmistakable authenticity. Those unsung few Special Operations soldiers and intelligence officers who have served at the very point of the spear in Southwest Asia may find here eerie reflections of their own experiences. In these thirteen tales, he offers readers a boots-on-the-ground feel for life and operations in this topographically and culturally rugged region.The small villages, the dusty streets, the smell of smoky wood fires, the pace and cadence of conversations--this is the way it was. With vivid description, engaging dialogue, and reverence for the storied history of the region, author "Wick" Walker distills in these stories a sense of the exotic landscape--from the crowded bazaars of Rawalpindi and Peshawar to the heights of the Hindu Kush . Goat Game explores territory untouched by conventional journalism and war memoirs.. He populates the stories with memorable char
"Review of Goat Game" according to Arturo G. Munoz. Goat Game: Thirteen Tales from the Afghan Frontier, stands apart from the volumes of material now being published about the conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Lieutenant Colonel Wickliffe "Wick" Walker (U.S. Army, retired) is a gifted writer, with extraordinary depth and experience to reflect upon the culture of this distant land. The related vignettes he develops in Goat Game are carefully constructed to provide insights into two decades of history in a complex and contradictory milieu that defies facile explanations. By writing fiction, Wick has more freedom. The Great Game continues. A Customer While most of us were content to gratify our sense of adventure by watching James Bond movies and Old TV shows about the Wild West, Wickliffe Walker was spending his winters in the much wilder East of the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. Here's modern-day adventure at its most real and gritty--and yet still with the exotic, even romantic flavor of the region the US has become so involved in. Bailey is no superhero--in the title story he stays well on the outskirts of the potentially lethal scrum. But he takes his chances when he has to, in many a dicey situation. For . "The Backside of War" according to Larry W. Paxton. Well written short stories about working with America's formal and informal allies against common foes. Walker writes about the unsung Pakistani, Afghan, and American heroes engaged in America's recent covert wars. His stories are soldier stories, devoid as they should be of the political agendas, preconceptions and egos all too commonplace at strategic levels.