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1991. Near Checkpoint Zulu, one hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from war zones in part to avoid his lackluster marriage and a daughter he loves but cannot connect with; Arwood is a midwestern American private who might be an insufferable ignoramus, or might be a genuine lunatic with a death wish—it's hard to tell. Desert Storm is over, peace has been declared, but as they argue about whether it makes sense to cross the nearest border in search of an ice cream, they become embroiled in a horrific attack in which a young local girl in a green dress is killed as they are trying to protect her. The two men walk away into their respective lives. But something has cracked for them both.
Twenty-two years later, in another place, in another war, they meet again and are offered an unlikely opportunity to redeem themselves when that same girl in green is found alive and in need of salvation. Or is she?
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About Derek B. Miller
Derek B. Miller is an author whose first novel, Norwegian by Night, won the Crime Writers’ Association’s John Creasey Dagger Award and was named a best book of the year by the London Economist and several other major media. His next two novels, The Girl in Green and American by Day, were nominees for the Dagger Award. Born and raised in Boston, he has worked on international peace and security for think tanks, diplomatic missions, and the United Nations.