Old Silk Road
Norman "Doc" Rodgers is in a world of pain.

A young combat medic in Afghanistan, he's eager to avenge his father's death in the World Trade Center and make sense of a new world that feels like it's fallen to pieces. Haunted by hallucinatory encounters his only solace is a barely concealed addiction to the precious opiates he's supposed to dole out sparingly to those beyond help.

Old Silk Road weaves a striking tale of permanent terror, hazy objectives, shadowy contractors and the toll of modern warfare on soldiers and civilians alike. In this tautly-plotted debut novel Caro, a veteran who served in Afghanistan, tells the story of a soldier's undoing in raw, incendiary and hypnotic prose. It's an extraordinary portrait one soldier's frustration, confusion and ambivalence, written by someone who's been there.
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Old Silk Road
Norman "Doc" Rodgers is in a world of pain.

A young combat medic in Afghanistan, he's eager to avenge his father's death in the World Trade Center and make sense of a new world that feels like it's fallen to pieces. Haunted by hallucinatory encounters his only solace is a barely concealed addiction to the precious opiates he's supposed to dole out sparingly to those beyond help.

Old Silk Road weaves a striking tale of permanent terror, hazy objectives, shadowy contractors and the toll of modern warfare on soldiers and civilians alike. In this tautly-plotted debut novel Caro, a veteran who served in Afghanistan, tells the story of a soldier's undoing in raw, incendiary and hypnotic prose. It's an extraordinary portrait one soldier's frustration, confusion and ambivalence, written by someone who's been there.
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Old Silk Road

Old Silk Road

by Brandon Caro
Old Silk Road

Old Silk Road

by Brandon Caro

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Overview

Norman "Doc" Rodgers is in a world of pain.

A young combat medic in Afghanistan, he's eager to avenge his father's death in the World Trade Center and make sense of a new world that feels like it's fallen to pieces. Haunted by hallucinatory encounters his only solace is a barely concealed addiction to the precious opiates he's supposed to dole out sparingly to those beyond help.

Old Silk Road weaves a striking tale of permanent terror, hazy objectives, shadowy contractors and the toll of modern warfare on soldiers and civilians alike. In this tautly-plotted debut novel Caro, a veteran who served in Afghanistan, tells the story of a soldier's undoing in raw, incendiary and hypnotic prose. It's an extraordinary portrait one soldier's frustration, confusion and ambivalence, written by someone who's been there.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940150917972
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Publication date: 10/13/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 378 KB

About the Author

Brandon Caro is a prior US Navy corpsman (combat medic) and former advisor to the Afghan National Army. He deployed in 2006-2007 to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Daily Beast and WhiteHot Magazine, among others. He resides in Austin, TX.
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