The infernal: a novel
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In the early years of the Iraq War, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad Valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the U.S. government speculates: Who is he? Where did he come from? And, crucially, what does he know? In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and forgotten apparatus of torture, which extracts "perfect confessions," is retrieved from the vaults. Over the course of four days, a cavalcade of voices rises up from the Akkad boy, each one striving to tell his or her own story. Some of these voices are familiar: Osama bin Laden, L. Paul Bremer, Condoleezza Rice, Mark Zuckerberg. Others are less so. But each one has a role in the world shaped by the war on terror. Each wants to tell us: This is the world as it exists in our innermost selves. This is what has been and what might be. This is The Infernal.
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9781555977016
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Grouping Title | infernal |
Grouping Author | doten mark |
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subject_facet | Electronic analog computers -- Fiction, Iraq -- Fiction, Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Fiction, War criminals -- Fiction, War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | The infernal : a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | The infernal : a novel / Mark Doten | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | The infernal : | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Electronic analog computers, Iraq War, 2003-2011, War criminals, War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 |