**“The American betrayal of Afghanistan took twenty years. Elliot Ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing honesty in this intensely personal chronicle.” —George PackerA powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacy**Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary ...

“Patiently, and unflinchingly, Ackerman is becoming one of the great poet laureates of America’s tragic adventurism across the globe.” —Pico IyerEden lies in a hospital bed, unable to move or speak. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his room. We see them through the eyes of Eden’s best friend, a fellow Marine who didn’t make it back home—and who must relive the secrets held between all three of them as he waits for Eden to finally, mercifully die and jo...

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST“Transports readers into a world few Americans know” —Washington Post**A timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria.Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it...

«Essere capace di riflettere sulle cose ultime è ciò che trasforma un uomo che scrive in un vero scrittore. Ed Ackerman è uno scrittore di prim'ordine.»D - la Repubblica«Elliot Ackerman ha posato il fucile e preso la penna, per ritrovare l'umanità.»Vanity Fair«Prima di diventare scrittore, Ackerman è stato un marine e ha combattuto in Afghanistan e in Iraq. Era un ragazzo colto, benestante, e non avrebbe ...

A daring new novel, at once timely and timeless, set around an American family and the ever-shifting sands of history and memory and legacy that define them (“An expert juggling act.” —Stephen Markley, New York Times Book Review)Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the Virginia estate of renowned lawyer, family patriarch, and World War II hero Robert Ableson. It’s 2004, and Gore is entering his second term as president, when news breaks...

Avec Le Passage, qui fut finaliste du National Book Award, Elliot Ackerman puise dans son expérience militaire pour livrer une réflexion pleine d'empathie sur l'un des conflits les plus déroutants de notre époque.Ancien interprète pour l'armée américaine en Irak, Haris Abadi a pu émigrer avec sa sœur aux États-Unis.Incapable d'y trouver sa place, il décide de se rendre en Syrie pour combattre le régime de Bachar-al-Assad aux côtés des insurgés. Mais...

**TWO MISFITS.ONE MISSION.ZERO BACK-UP.WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?‘You know Slow Horses – now meet the Sheepdogs . . . glorious . . . hilarious' SUNDAY TIMES**'A rollicking military-adjacent adventure . . . replete with jet-setting paramilitary types, secret meetings at the highest level of government and firefights, with some rough sex and women in peril added for good measure' WASHINGTON POSTSkwerl...

«Un romanzo necessario ed emozionante. Un ritratto forte e sfaccettato della Guerra civile in Siria.»Publishers Weekly«Il buio al crocevia si prepara ad essere uno dei libri fondamentali del 2017.»Esquire«Il buio al crocevia non è solo una riflessione sul rimorso, il tradimento, l'amore e la perdita, ma è anche un viaggio che ci riporta al bellissimo e dilaniato mondo in cui viviamo.»W...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE SPECTATOR AND NPR**'A superb, unique, and unforgettable story of war and death, fear and cruelty, above all the horrors and allure of combat' Simon Sebag Montefiore'One of the most profound books I have ever read about the real nature of war and the abstract allure of the ideas and the bloodshed that fuel...

Four explosions rolled in the distance. If there'd been clouds in the sky, the noise would've been mistaken for thunder.Aziz and his older brother Ali live in a village amid the pine forests and endless mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Their family is poor, but inside their mud-walled home,they have stability, love, and routine.But when a convoy of armed men suddenly arrives in the village, their parents disappear and their world is shattered. In order to ...

Mary veille sur son mari Eden tous les jours depuis trois ans. Mutilé en Irak, il est cloué sur un lit d'hôpital, emmuré dans son corps.Leur fille Andy grandit dans cette chambre, entre un père coincé entre la vie et la mort et une mère qui espère malgré tout.Un jour de Noël, Eden semble soudainement réagir aux signaux du monde extérieur. Mary est persuadée qu'elle seule peut interpréter les paroles silencieuses de son mari et décider de son destin.C...

A Vintage Shorts Original Selection“Why do some forms of violence—the beheading of journalists by the Islamic State, a bombing in Ankara, or the attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando—make us feel so threatened, while other forms—the 372 separate mass shootings in America in 2015 or the 4,219 Syrians killed that same September—do little to challenge our sense of safety?”From his base in Istanbul, Elliot Ackerman has written letters and essays that explore how global and seem...