Spoils [Paperback] [May 18, 2017] Brian Van Reet - Softcover

Brian Van Reet was born in Houston. Following the September 11th attacks, he left the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar, and enlisted in the U.S. Army as a tank crewman. He served in Iraq under stop-loss orders, achieved the rank of sergeant, and was awarded a Bronze Star for valor. He has twice won the Texas Institute of Letters short story award. This is his first novel.

"A brilliantly written account of kidnap and conquest in the early years of the Iraq war." -- Justine Jordan * Guardian, Books of the Year * "Clear, authentic and beautifully written, Spoils is a book about war for people who don't like books about war. Van Reet gives us a thriller that is not a thriller, but a grave and fierce description of the moral battlefield behind the headlines from Iraq." -- Anne Enright "Blisteringly good." * Daily Telegraph * "Undeniably engrossing." * Observer * "Brian Van Reet's assured debut novel begins with one of the best opening chapters I've read... bear[s] eye-widening witness to valour, horror, violence, cruelty and absurdity... not only rewarding but necessary." * Guardian *