· Spoils by Brian Van Reet has an overall rating of Rave based on 6 book reviews. Spoils by Brian Van Reet has an overall rating of Rave based on 6 book reviews. Van Reet doesn’t flinch from skewering the invasion’s cruelty and ineptitude, but his ambition goes beyond presenting us with only the US experience. The story gives us three. About — Brian Van Reet. Brian Van Reet is the author of Spoils, a novel named one of the best books of by the Guardian, Military Times, the Wall Street Journal, and others. A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, he has twice won the Texas Institute of Letters short story award. He lives in Austin with his family. Photo by Peter Tsai. · Spoils by Brian Van Reet review – essential insights into the Iraq war This vivid debut from a former soldier, about the capture of Marines by an Islamist militia, explores the valour, horror.
Spoils Summary. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of "Spoils" by Brian Van Reet. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Spoils by Brian Van Reet, read by Nicol Zanzarella, Armando Duran and Andrew Eiden.. It is the spring of , and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq. Images of a giant statue of Saddam Hussein crashing to the ground in Baghdad are being beamed to news channels around the world. Spoils, the debut novel from Brian Van Reet, weaves together three narratives of three combatants in the Iraq War to show with profound depth and power just how complicated hell can be. Unfortunately, the novel doesn't really address many of the controversies leading up to the war, such as the Bush administration's false claim that Saddam.
Spoils tells the story of Cassandra, a US soldier assigned as a gunner in Iraq. I was hooked from the opening line: “She is the most dangerous thing around.”. Author Brian Van Reet tells Cassandra’s story through multiple perspectives that become gradually, and tragically intertwined. A bold novel set at the heart of the Iraq War, Spoils offers an engrossing and nuanced account of the capture and attempted rescue of an American soldier. It takes five weeks for year-old specialist Cassandra Wigheard to engage the enemy directly in Iraq. When she does, as recounted within the first fifteen tightly-written pages of Van Reet’s debut novel, she is captured by jihadists. "Brian Van Reet's beautiful, intense, and at times disturbing novel Spoils traces the motivations and desires of combatants on both sides of the Iraq War, showing us what happens when increasing violence and chaos start to warp the choices they're able to make.".
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