Marine Turned Novelist Brings Brutal, Everyday Work Of War Into Focus

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August 26, 2014

NPR Staff

Soldiers fill a hole left by an explosion on a road outside Beiji, Iraq, in 2005. In his debut novel, Michael Pitre follows a group of Marines doing similar work on Iraq's highways. (AP)

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