Afghany Whammy

COMEDY NOVEL of the AFGHAN WAR

For a sampling of my comedy novel — Afghany Whammy — click the book cover below for the opening chapters straight from the paperback, in full-page PDF, viewable and downloadable.

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TRADITIONAL LITERARY NOVEL OF THE AFGHAN WAR

The literary counterpart to Afghany Whammy, for those curious and bold enough to seek a great big old-fashioned traditional war novel along the lines of The Naked & The Dead, Once an Eagle, The Caine Mutiny, Matterhorn, The 13th Valley, and the like. Check out TATTOO ZOO by clicking the book cover below to read the first 60 pages of the paperback in PDF:

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POSTCARDS FROM AFGHANISTAN

During the various years spent in Afghanistan first as a Green Beret then as a freelance journalist, I used my own photographs to create email postcards to send to family and friends worldwide as a way to let them know that I was alive and well . . . . and to give them an ironic bit of an insight into the country, culture, and the war . . . . through laughter. To view and/or download PDFs of two books of the postcards, click the two front covers below:

“Get out of Afghanistan,” I said.

I wrote this short OpEd in 2003 soon after I had returned to the States from my Green Beret tour, and the sole publication I approached who had any interest in it was Soldier of Fortune, proving how truly prescient and counter-mainstream Robert K. Brown’s magazine was.

Read the short argument in PDF here.

FLIRTING WITH AFGHANISTAN

This is a magazine-length essay from 2008 arguing the above Wasting Money In Afghanistan in great detail . . . . laying out the case that it would ultimately take the U.S. another 13 years to admit . . . . that the war was folly and unwinnable.

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