Book description
'Combines elements of
In Cold Blood
and Black Hawk Down
with Apocalypse Now
as it builds towards its terrible climax...Extraordinary' New York Times
Iraq's 'Triangle of Death', 2005. A platoon of young soldiers from a U.
S. regiment known as 'the Black Heart Brigade' is deployed to a lawless
and hyperviolent area just south of Baghdad. Almost immediately, the
attacks begin: every day another roadside bomb, another colleague blown
to pieces. As the daily violence chips away, and chips away at their
sanity, the thirty-five young men of 1st Platoon, Bravo Company descend
into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality -
with tragic results.
Black Hearts
is a timeless true story of how modern warfare can make or break a
man's character. Told with severe compassion, balanced judgement and the
magnetic pace of a thriller, it looks set to become one of the defining
books about the Iraq War.
'Black Hearts
is the obverse of Band of Brothers
, a story not of combat unity but of disharmony and disarray' Chicago
Sun-Times
'A riveting picture of life outside the wire in Iraq, where "you
tell a guy to go across a bridge, and within five minutes he's
dead."'Kirkus Reviews
(starred) Jim Frederick is Executive Editor at Time
magazine, and the Managing Editor of Time. com. He was previously a
Time
senior editor in London and, before that, the magazine's Tokyo bureau
chief. He is co-author, with former Army Sergeant Charles Robert
Jenkins, of The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion
, Court-Martial
, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
. He lives in New York City.
