description: In Tom Wolfe's Ambush at Fort Bragg, no one escapes the author's satiric barbs. The doughy, rumpled network producer of a hard-hitting 60 Minutes-style TV show dreams of fame, while the limelight always shines instead on the tough-as-nails blonde investigative reporter in the perfect silk blouse with every hair always in place. The TV team, in their zeal to get the story, entrap a trio of skinhead gaybashers by having an exotic dancer (with the pitch-perfect name Lola Thong) lure them into a trailer, where hidden TV cameras capture their unwitting confessions. As usual, Wolfe makes it impossible to predict where your sympathies will land. Actor Edward Norton gives a delicious reading, especially in capturing the North Carolina drawls of the guilty men.
language: English
title: Ambush at Fort Bragg
titlecomplete: Ambush at Fort Bragg
genres: Fiction, Thriller, Novels, Military Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 344
places: Fort Bragg, North Carolina
publisher: BBC Audio