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Algonquin Books
October 2015
On Sale: October 13, 2015
Featuring: Ethan; Jessica
320 pages
ISBN: 1616205237
EAN: 9781616205232
Kindle: B00U6YR09O
Hardcover / e-Book
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Winner of the prestigious PEN/Bellwether Prize for
Socially Engaged Fiction, And West Is West is an
inspired novel about two young people who learn, the hard
way, about the devastating power of new technology to
isolate us from the consequences of our actions. When Jessica, a young Air Force drone pilot in Nevada, is
tasked with launching a missile against a suspected
terrorist halfway across the world, she realizes that though
women and children are in the crosshairs of her screen, she
has no choice but to follow orders. Ethan, a young Wall
Street quant, is involved in a more bloodless connection to
war when he develops an algorithm that enables his company’s
clients to profit by exploiting the international financial
instability caused by exactly this kind of antiterrorist
strike. These two are only minor players, but their actions
have global implications that tear lives apart--including
their own. When Jessica finds herself discharged from the
service and Ethan makes an error that costs him his job,
both find themselves adrift, cast out by a corrupt system
and forced to take the blame for decisions they did not make. In And West Is West, Ron Childress has crafted a
powerful, politically charged, and terrifyingly real
scenario that takes readers into the lives of characters
living in different worlds yet bound together by forces
beyond their control.
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