Life During Wartime

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In the jungles of Guatemala, David Mingolla is struggling to survive amongst the rotting vegetation and his despairing fellow foot soldiers. He knows he is nothing but an expendable pawn in an endless war. On R & R a few miles away from the warzone he meets Debora - an enigmatic young woman who may be working for the enemy - and stumbles into a deadly psychic conflict where the mind is the greatest weapon.

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Winner of the Nebula Award for R&R, which is the first part of this novel 'One of the most intriguing books of the year ... superior writing' Science Fiction Review 'Shepard is one of the strongest moral voices in the genre and beyond' Interzone 'Perhaps the most exciting new storyteller of them all' Washington Post 'Brings to mind the best work of Graham Greene, Robert Stone and Ward Just' Wall Street Journal 'Shepard is a writer with breathtaking ability' Locus 'Shepard manipulates genre elements in order to transcend genre expectations' New York Review of Books