The Good Lieutenant Audiobook

Quotes

• “A wild Humvee ride of a novel.”

  — Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times bestselling author

• “Terrell is experimenting with the slow revelation of character in the opposite direction of a normal narrative arc…We are left to wonder about our own lies, when they became acceptable to us, whom we trust, and how we’ve become who we are.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “This is brilliant, bold, heartbreaking storytelling for material that demands nothing less.”

  — Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

• “A terrific exploration of courage, leadership, and loss…that feels both specific to the Iraq conflict and also unnervingly timeless.”

  — Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author

• “Joins the ranks of great war novels that explain, too late, why ‘victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.’”

  — Jayne Anne Phillips, New York Times bestselling author

• “A stirring performance grounded in the hard realities of combat…This novel should be read by all.”

  — Anthony Swofford, New York Times bestselling author

• “Terrell shows us how soldiers think and address one another with a stinging combination of military argot and pop culture references.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Focuses not so much on military action and battle scenes as on the interactions of a group of unheroic individuals thrown into an extreme situation…It is exactly these confrontations among and within individuals that give the story its power and appeal.”

  — Library Journal