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Balzer + Bray
February 2011
On Sale: February 15, 2011
224 pages
ISBN: 0061730920
EAN: 9780061730924
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Fiction Family Life
When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in
Iraq, he's honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn't feel
like a hero. There's a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi
boy as a bullet hits his chest. Matt can't shake the feeling
that he was somehow involved in his death. But because of a
head injury he sustained just moments after the boy was
shot, Matt can't quite put all the pieces together. Eventually Matt is sent back into combat with his
squad—Justin, Wolf, and Charlene—the soldiers who have
become his family during his time in Iraq. He just wants to
go back to being the soldier he once was. But he sees
potential threats everywhere and lives in fear of not being
able to pull the trigger when the time comes. In combat
there is no black-and-white, and Matt soon discovers that
the notion of who is guilty is very complicated indeed. National Book Award Finalist Patricia McCormick has written
a visceral and compelling portrait of life in a war zone,
where loyalty is valued above all, and death is terrifyingly
commonplace.
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