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For readers of Phil Klay's Missionaries and Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke.
Santo Domingo, April 1965. Twenty-three thousand American troops land in the Dominican Republic to stop what Washington has decided is a second Cuba. The intervention will last seventeen months. The methods rehearsed there will travel forward to Saigon.
Dani Piedra is a CIA analyst whose ledger of suspected communists was meant to inform policy. In the hands of men with rifles, it becomes something else. Red Thibodeaux is a Military Police corporal at a checkpoint where the bodies arrive, and the paperwork does not. His logs go up the chain. They do not come back.
Neither is corrupt. Neither breaks the rules. The machinery around them works exactly as designed, and that is the problem.
Told across three acts—Careful Work, It's Not Enough, and Transferred—The Albatross Ledger traces how an institution credentials its own failures and carries the practice forward to the next war. It is a novel about intelligence, evidence, and the quiet bureaucratic distance between a name on a list and a body in a ditch.
Phillip Daigle served with the 82nd Airborne Division in the Dominican Republic in 1965. The Albatross Ledger is his fifth novel.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Santo Domingo, April 1965. Twenty-three thousand American troops land in the Dominican Republic to stop what Washington has decided is a second Cuba. The intervention will last seventeen months. The methods rehearsed there will travel forward to Saigon.Dani Piedra is a CIA analyst whose ledger of suspected communists was meant to inform policy. In the hands of men with rifles, it becomes something else. Red Thibodeaux is a Military Police corporal at a checkpoint where the bodies arrive, and the paperwork does not. His logs go up the chain. They do not come back.Neither is corrupt. Neither breaks the rules. The machinery around them works exactly as designed, and that is the problem.Told across three acts, Careful Work, It's Not Enough, and Transferred, The Albatross Ledger traces how an institution credentials its own failures and carries the practice forward to the next war. It is a novel about intelligence, evidence, and the quiet bureaucratic distance between a name on a list and a body in a ditch.Phillip Daigle served with the 82nd Airborne Division in the Dominican Republic in 1965. The Albatross Ledger is his fifth novel For readers of Phil Klay's Missionaries and Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke. Santo Domingo, April 1965. Twenty-three thousand American troops land in the Dominican Republic to stop what Washington has decided is a second Cuba. The intervention will last seventeen months. The methods rehearsed there will travel forward to Saigon. Dani Piedra is a CIA analyst whose ledger of suspected communists was meant to inform policy. In the hands of men with rifles, it becomes something else. Red Thibodeaux is a Military Police corporal at a checkpoint where the bodies arrive, and the paperwork does not. His logs go up the chain. They do not come back. Neither is corrupt. Neither breaks the rules. The machinery around them works exactly as designed, and that is the problem. Told across three acts-Careful Work, It's Not Enough, and Transferred-The Albatross Ledger traces how an institution credentials its own failures and carries the practice forward to the next war. It is a novel about intelligence, evidence, and the quiet bureaucratic distance between a name on a list and a body in a ditch. Phillip Daigle served with the 82nd Airborne Division in the Dominican Republic in 1965. The Albatross Ledger is his fifth novel. In the shadow of a foreign intervention, a data analyst and a soldier witness how bureaucratic precision transforms intelligence into tragedy, setting a lethal precedent for the wars to come. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798999426093
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Santo Domingo, April 1965. Twenty-three thousand American troops land in the Dominican Republic to stop what Washington has decided is a second Cuba. The intervention will last seventeen months. The methods rehearsed there will travel forward to Saigon.Dani Piedra is a CIA analyst whose ledger of suspected communists was meant to inform policy. In the hands of men with rifles, it becomes something else. Red Thibodeaux is a Military Police corporal at a checkpoint where the bodies arrive, and the paperwork does not. His logs go up the chain. They do not come back.Neither is corrupt. Neither breaks the rules. The machinery around them works exactly as designed, and that is the problem.Told across three acts, Careful Work, It's Not Enough, and Transferred, The Albatross Ledger traces how an institution credentials its own failures and carries the practice forward to the next war. It is a novel about intelligence, evidence, and the quiet bureaucratic distance between a name on a list and a body in a ditch.Phillip Daigle served with the 82nd Airborne Division in the Dominican Republic in 1965. The Albatross Ledger is his fifth novel For readers of Phil Klay's Missionaries and Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke. Santo Domingo, April 1965. Twenty-three thousand American troops land in the Dominican Republic to stop what Washington has decided is a second Cuba. The intervention will last seventeen months. The methods rehearsed there will travel forward to Saigon. Dani Piedra is a CIA analyst whose ledger of suspected communists was meant to inform policy. In the hands of men with rifles, it becomes something else. Red Thibodeaux is a Military Police corporal at a checkpoint where the bodies arrive, and the paperwork does not. His logs go up the chain. They do not come back. Neither is corrupt. Neither breaks the rules. The machinery around them works exactly as designed, and that is the problem. Told across three acts-Careful Work, It's Not Enough, and Transferred-The Albatross Ledger traces how an institution credentials its own failures and carries the practice forward to the next war. It is a novel about intelligence, evidence, and the quiet bureaucratic distance between a name on a list and a body in a ditch. Phillip Daigle served with the 82nd Airborne Division in the Dominican Republic in 1965. The Albatross Ledger is his fifth novel. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798999426093
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Santo Domingo, April 1965. Twenty-three thousand American troops land in the Dominican Republic to stop what Washington has decided is a second Cuba. The intervention will last seventeen months. The methods rehearsed there will travel forward to Saigon.Dani Piedra is a CIA analyst whose ledger of suspected communists was meant to inform policy. In the hands of men with rifles, it becomes something else. Red Thibodeaux is a Military Police corporal at a checkpoint where the bodies arrive, and the paperwork does not. His logs go up the chain. They do not come back.Neither is corrupt. Neither breaks the rules. The machinery around them works exactly as designed, and that is the problem.Told across three acts, Careful Work, It's Not Enough, and Transferred, The Albatross Ledger traces how an institution credentials its own failures and carries the practice forward to the next war. It is a novel about intelligence, evidence, and the quiet bureaucratic distance between a name on a list and a body in a ditch.Phillip Daigle served with the 82nd Airborne Division in the Dominican Republic in 1965. The Albatross Ledger is his fifth novel For readers of Phil Klay's Missionaries and Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke. Santo Domingo, April 1965. Twenty-three thousand American troops land in the Dominican Republic to stop what Washington has decided is a second Cuba. The intervention will last seventeen months. The methods rehearsed there will travel forward to Saigon. Dani Piedra is a CIA analyst whose ledger of suspected communists was meant to inform policy. In the hands of men with rifles, it becomes something else. Red Thibodeaux is a Military Police corporal at a checkpoint where the bodies arrive, and the paperwork does not. His logs go up the chain. They do not come back. Neither is corrupt. Neither breaks the rules. The machinery around them works exactly as designed, and that is the problem. Told across three acts-Careful Work, It's Not Enough, and Transferred-The Albatross Ledger traces how an institution credentials its own failures and carries the practice forward to the next war. It is a novel about intelligence, evidence, and the quiet bureaucratic distance between a name on a list and a body in a ditch. Phillip Daigle served with the 82nd Airborne Division in the Dominican Republic in 1965. The Albatross Ledger is his fifth novel. In the shadow of a foreign intervention, a data analyst and a soldier witness how bureaucratic precision transforms intelligence into tragedy, setting a lethal precedent for the wars to come. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798999426093
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