{"id":22438,"date":"2018-03-15T16:12:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/03\/15\/military-times-spring-reading-guide-4-fiction-picks\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:13:54","slug":"military-times-spring-reading-guide-4-fiction-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/off-duty\/2018\/03\/15\/military-times-spring-reading-guide-4-fiction-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Times Spring Reading Guide: 4 fiction picks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A first-time author\u2019s book of short stories adds to outstanding work from Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, and highlights a quartet of new military-themed literary offerings for your consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reviews, in order of reading value and satisfaction. Prices are provided by the publishers; you may find better deals online or in your local bookstore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> for our spring nonfiction reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bring Out the Dog: Stories <\/b>by Will Mackin, Random House, 192 pages, $27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The short book of short stories<\/a> launches the Navy veteran (23 years) into the pantheon-in-progress of outstanding literary fiction coming out of today\u2019s wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of the 11 pieces appeared first in The New Yorker \u2014an indication of their high quality. All take place in the dystopia of hard-working, dirty dogs of war, \u201cet cetera\u201d (a favored word). And all are set where \u201cthe reigning world champions of speed and violence\u201d train in Utah and North Carolina, or fight in Iraq or in Afghanistan, in the crevices of mountains and warriors\u2019 brains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of that means if you require easy resolution in your fiction, you might be more comfortable with a thriller (See below). Instead of O. Henry, think George \u201cLincoln in the Bardo<\/a>\u201d Saunders, with whom the author studied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The canine in the title is a Belgian Malinois whose memorial service occurs in the dark, when \u201cnight vision had afforded certain advantages\u201d including the ability to see \u201cice crystals trailing off the drone\u2019s wingtips.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \u201cRib Night\u201d at the dining facility, an operator sees \u201cseahorse tails spinning clockwise\u201d in a buddy\u2019s eyes, and \u201ctime machine\u201d pills feel \u201clike money in the bank.\u201d There\u2019s a brawl, justified of course, over a carton of milk, and the story is a must-read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indian Country<\/b> by John T. Young, IngramElliott, 246 pages, $15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this thriller<\/a> that deftly meets the genre\u2019s formula and also quotes Oscar Wilde and Flannery O\u2019Connor, an Indian reservation is a scene of action and a source of solace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hero Jack Kincaid, an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran on an FBI gig, identifies and wants to expel the bad guys: Mexican drug dealers, Pakistani jihadists, and Americans who claim \u201cwe don\u2019t need the [expletive] government telling us what to do\u201d while they accept al-Qaida and cartel cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al-Qaida imports heroin to the U.S. because \u201cthe more America has to spend money and resources on its addicts, the weaker it becomes. And American dollars can be used to buy more weapons\u201d \u2014 for the destruction of the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only our hero and Native Americans have redeeming qualities. \u201cSince Vietnam,\u201d says the author and Army veteran of that war, \u201csoldiers have regarded any combat zone as Indian Country,\u201d a reference to Army\u2019s 19th-century fights against Indians. In his novel\u2019s sovereign nation, a Navajo Marine veteran of Vietnam exorcises spiritual demons \u2014 even Kincaid\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Terminal List: A Thriller <\/b>by Jack Carr, Simon and Schuster, 416 pages, $27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a pseudonym and a co-author (who receives two unbilled nods) and 10 pages of acknowledgments to everyone from the National Rifle Association to the Next Gen Foundation, a former Navy SEAL produces a suspenseful first thriller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cList<\/a>\u201d moves fast \u2014 and predictably. A dying team member \u201cdrifted off to Valhalla\u201d when 28 Rangers and 36 SEALs in hero James Reece\u2019s Afghanistan unit are killed in an ambush. Reece discovers the culprits and avenges the despicable American higher-ups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One has \u201cliberal political leanings under a far-left Democrat president,\u201d and another uses \u201cthe Pentagon like the world\u2019s biggest ATM machine.\u201d (Without the redundant \u201cmachine,\u201d the line is a good one.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour reputation was your currency\u201d in special operations, and Reece strikes gold. He also strikes whomever he puts on his checklist of traitors, providing readers with blood and, literally, guts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reece<\/mark>\u2019s pieces of violence unveil an undercurrent of politics. The preface warns of \u201crevisionist views of the Constitution by opportunist politicians and unelected judges with agendas that reinterpret the Bill of Rights.\u201d Any \u201cconsolidation of power at the federal level\u201d must be \u201cguarded against at all costs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The irony of Reece\u2019s being a singular judge, jury and executor is the only thing that escapes him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Battle Scars<\/b> by David M. Salkin, Amazon, 120 pages, $7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An airman is on the cover, but the story is about a Marine who walks a familiar path toward recovery after losing a leg and four friends in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe screenplay version,\u201d says the author, \u201cprompted the writing of this novella<\/a>.\u201d The occasionally touching \u201cThank You to America\u2019s Warriors\u201d has good intentions but feels like a training film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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