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Henry Holt and Co.
April 2016
On Sale: April 5, 2016
256 pages
ISBN: 1627795138
EAN: 9781627795135
Kindle: B015CKNZ1S
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Consequence is the story of Eric Fair, a kid who grew up in
the shadows of crumbling Bethlehem Steel plants nurturing a
strong faith and a belief that he was called to serve his
country. It is a story of a man who chases his own demons
from Egypt, where he served as an Army translator, to a
detention center in Iraq, to seminary at Princeton, and
eventually, to a heart transplant ward at the University of
Pennsylvania. In 2004, after several months as an interrogator with a
private contractor in Iraq, Eric Fair's nightmares take new
forms: first, there had been the shrinking dreams; now the
liquid dreams begin. By the time he leaves Iraq after that
first deployment (he will return), Fair will have
participated in or witnessed a variety of aggressive
interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress
positions, diet manipulation, exposure, and isolation. Years
later, his health and marriage crumbling, haunted by the
role he played in what we now know as "enhanced
interrogation," it is Fair's desire to speak out that
becomes a key to his survival. Spare and haunting, Eric Fair's memoir is both a brave,
unrelenting confession and a book that questions the very
depths of who he, and we as a country, have become.
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