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Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson's first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
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On the streets of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Inglewood CA . . ., and, in a world of chance, survival, hope, greed, and uncertain success, there are tasks that must be accomplished, and somebody has to be man enough to accept the responsibility of that accomplishment. This is all in a world where almost everything you have to do is detrimental. Debo (D-Angelo L. Jackson) teams up with Mad-C (Charles Write) to take on a mission where they must fight to stay alive. But it's an even harder responsibility to fight to keep the people they love alive, and to hold on to what rightfully belongs to them. Debo and Mad-C uses their skills, wisdom, and common sense to deal with the people who are tr...
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