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Blue Rider Press
February 2015
On Sale: February 5, 2015
Featuring: Dutch Shaw
252 pages
ISBN: 0399173404
EAN: 9780399173400
Kindle: B00L9B7YX0
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Action | Military | Fiction
A powerful, dark, and morally provocative debut novel
about a U.S. Special Forces unit operating in the Middle
East, written by a former soldier—No Easy Day meets
Redeployment…
It’s hot and getting hotter
this summer in Afghanipakiraqistan—the preferred name for
the ambiguous stretch of the world where the U.S. Special
Forces operate with little outside attention. Team Leader
Dutch Shaw is missing his late grandmother. She was the last
link he had to civilian life, to any kind of world of
innocence.
But there’s no time to mourn. After two
helicopters in a sister squadron are shot down, Shaw and his
team know that they’re going to be spun up and sent back in,
deep into insurgent territory, where a mysterious new
organization called Al Ayeelaa has been attracting
high-value targets from across the region. As Shaw and his
men fight their way closer to the source, mission by
mission, they begin to realize that their way may have been
prepared for them in advance, and not by a welcoming
host.
The Knife is a debut novel of intense
authenticity by a former soldier in a United States Special
Operations Command direct-action team. As scenes of
horseshoes and horseplay cut to dim Ambien-soaked trips in
helicopters and beyond, Ritchell’s story takes us deep
beneath the testosterone-laced patter into the lonelier,
more ambivalent world of military life in the Middle East.
The result is a fast-paced journey into darkness; a
quintessential novel of the American wars of the
twenty-first century
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