The sheltering
Subtitle: a novel
By: Mark Powell
Series: Story River Books
Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Columbia, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781611174342; 9781611174359
Subjects: Families of military personnel; Fiction; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Loss (Psychology)
Description: Luther Redding lost his job, and almost lost his wife, Pamela, and teenaged daughters Katie and Lucy, when the real estate bubble burst in Florida. Now he pilots a Reaper drone over the mountains of Afghanistan from a command center in the bowels of Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base, studying a target's pattern of life and awaiting the command to end that life. Meanwhile Bobby Rosen has returned home from his tours in Iraq to a broken marriage and an estranged son, his promising military career cut short in a moment of terrible violence in a Sadr City marketplace. As the tales of Luther and Bobby unfold, Mark Powell masterfully engages with the vexing, bifurcated lives of combatants in the global war on terror, those who are simultaneously here and there and thus never fully freed from the life-and-death chaos of the battlefield.