The first stone / Carsten Jensen ; translated by Mark Mussari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jensen, Carsten, 1952- author.

Contributor:

Mussari, Mark, translator.

Standardized Title:

Første sten. English

Language:

Danish

English

Subjects (All):

North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Armed Forces--Fiction.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Soldiers--Afghanistan--Fiction.

Soldiers.

Desert warfare--Fiction.

Desert warfare.

Fellowship--Fiction.

Fellowship.

Survival--Fiction.

Survival.

Armed Forces.

Afghanistan.

Afghanistan--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

War fiction.

Action and adventure fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

569 pages : map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : AmazonCrossing, 2019.

Language Note:

Translated from the Danish.

Summary:

"Dispatched to fight the Taliban as part of the NATO forces, the soldiers of the Third Platoon arrive in a desert hell intent on testing their courage and endurance. Among them are the charismatic platoon leader Schrøder, a former games designer fascinated by the imaginative potential of war; Colonel Steffensen, whose negotiating tactics will have deadly consequences; Sidekick, the LifeLogger whose online "war memorial" will blur into horror; and the hardened but vulnerable Hannah, who must bury her womanhood - or sacrifice her soul. Confronted by a betrayal that no military training could prepare them for, the soldiers must embark on a desperate mission to track down an enemy whose methods are as murderous as they are unfathomable. As the hunters become the hunted, the mission turns into a depraved, hallucinatory voyage into an Afghanistan they never knew existed. With the Third Platoon's most fundamental notions of good and evil called into question, survival becomes their only mission. "--Publisher description.

Notes:

Previously published as Den forste sten by Gyldendal in Denmark in 2015.

ISBN:

1542044391

9781542044394

9781542044387

1542044383

OCLC:

1055429055