The infernal
Subtitle: a novel
By: Mark Doten
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9781555977016
Subjects: Fiction; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Electronic analog computers; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; War criminals
Description: "In the early years of the Iraq war, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the US government speculates: Who is he? Where did he come from? And, crucially, what does he know? In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and forgotten apparatus of torture, which extracts "perfect confessions," is retrieved from the vaults. Over the course of four days, a cavalcade of voices rises up from the Akkad boy, each one striving to tell his or her own story. Some of these voices are familiar: Osama Bin Laden, L. Paul Bremer, Condoleezza Rice, Mark Zuckerberg. Others are less so. But each one has a role in the world shaped by the war on terror. Each wants to tell us: this is the world as it exists in our innermost selves. This is what has been and what might be" --
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The death of the world; title: pt. 2. Rebirth.