Maarten van der Werf Knihy

Chris Hunter says the bomb technician's prayer many times over during his tour of Iraq. His is the most dangerous job, in the most dangerous place in the world - to make safe the British sector in Iraq against some of the most technically advanced terrorists in the world. It is a 24/7 job - his team defuse over 45 bombs in the first two months alone. The people they're up against don't play by the Geneva Convention. For them, there are no rules, only results. Bombs, rockets, grenades, ambushes, booby traps - death by any means necessary. Welcome to the real Wild West. The job of Bomb Disposal Officer in Iraq is a lonely one. You are alone with the sound of your own breathing and the drumming of your heart in a protective suit in forty plus degrees of heat. The drawbridge has been pulled up behind you as you advance on your goal. Playtime is over. It's just you and the bomb. Just when life couldn't get any more dangerous for Chris Hunter, the stakes are raised again. Halfway through his tour, he is told the following: 'They want you dead, Chris. You and your team have captured their weaponry, you've fingered them with forensics, you've neutralised a shedload of their IEDs, and basically you're making Behadli and his lot look like cunts. They're out to kill the golden-haired bomb man in Basra.'

Návrat z misie od Phila Klaya zavedie čitateľa do prvých línií vojenských konfliktov v Iraku a Afganistane a taktiež nazerá na situáciu vojakov, ktorí sa z bojov vrátili domov. Kniha je popretkávaná témami brutality a viery, viny a strachu, bezmocnosti a hrdinstva a boja o prežitie. Postavy jej príbehov sa snažia o jediné: nájsť zmysel v chaose, ktorý ich obklopuje. Kniha Návrat z misie je to najlepšie, čo si môžete zo súčasnej vojnovej literatúry prečítať. Klay neuveriteľne živo opisuje dva svety, ktoré obývajú vojaci naprieč národmi a kontinentmi: prvý je zložený z extrémov a ten druhý je svetom strát. Hrubozrnný realizmus a emocionálna hĺbka robia z autora jedného z najtalentovanejších hlasov svojej generácie. Príbehy, ktoré predkladá Phil Klay, sú precízne vystavané psychologické trilery. Mladý autor podáva brilantnú analýzu rozmarov vojny so všetkými jej komplikáciami. Kniha získala americkú Národnú cenu za literatúru a The New York Times Book Review označil Návrat z misie Phila Klaya za jednu z najlepších kníh roka 2015.

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