Sandbox

Sandbox Synopsis

This ';gripping' and suspenseful novel of the Iraq War ';will keep you turning the pages' (The New York Times). Operating Base Cornucopia is a three-hundred-year-old fortress in the remote Iraqi desert where a few dozen soldiers wait for their next assignment, among them Pvt. Toby Durrant, a self-described ';broke nobody.' Then a deadly ambush touches off events that put Durrant in the middle of a far-reaching conspiracy.

Insurgents massing in the nearby hills, a secretive member of military intelligence, an abandoned toy factory, and a mysterious, half-feral childDurrant must figure out the links between them if he's to survive. This blistering look at military life in ';the sandbox' of Iraq is both a compelling mystery and a vivid evocation of an ';isolated moonscapea place as liable to produce hallucinations and heat exhaustion as it is to churn up sandstorms that last for days' (Los Angeles Times).