{"product_id":"hearts-and-minds-9798223152934","title":"Hearts and Minds","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Steve Marshall\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Foxtail Media\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Foxtail Media\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Noir\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWar is hell and sometimes hell offers opportunities.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the United States military comes calling, we come with not only the best weapons on the planet and a bunch of hard ass soldiers, but with enough cash to buy anyone who stands in our way. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut nothing is ever simple in war...or in Iraq. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarry Moore was a hustler from Alabama. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSmart, good looking, but far too lazy, Harry joined the Army because they were the only chance he had to get someone to pay for a law school degree through their Funded Legal Education Program (FLEP). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when his name didn't make the yearly list his plan collapsed and he became desperate. He hated the Army and hated being told what to do and when to do it.\u003cp\u003eStructure and discipline interfered with his relaxed attitude towards life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe didn't want to wait another year to reapply. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt the same time Harry's dream collapsed another untraceable shipment arrived where he worked\u003c\/strong\u003e, at Building Seven of Baghdad International Airport (BIAP). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo paperwork, no computer records, just a high ranking officer and a civilian who arrived with the shipment and kept it under verbal command only. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe few who figured out that the shipments existed suspected they were cash from the CIA.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarry recruited the hardest soldiers he knew, including Julian a young man who needed therapy more than a gun, and Mamo, a man much too nice to be at war. But with Mamo at six foot seven inches tall nobody bothered to discover the real man inside of the mountain standing in front of them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarry also recruited an young Iraqi thief and his friends.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe money was part of a secret deal between the CIA and the chief strategist for one of the largest insurgencies, run by a popular Shia cleric. For the right price, attacks would stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBob Hunter and Tareef Jamal negotiated the agreement in a London safehouse..\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cleric that Tareef advised had a plan to change Iraq drastically. But he needed money and power to succeed. He had a plan to get both and would soon be the most powerful man in Iraq.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile he was at war Julian's wife Tina was having an affair with Eddie Moran, a sociopath kept on a short leash by his loving but career criminal father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Julian told his wife about the money, she told Eddie. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEddie told his father and they came up with their own plan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey put together a team which included a young Dennis Trunk. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead Hearts and Minds, a Trunk story from years before you met him in Smoke and Mirrors.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Never aim for the apple. There are much better targets' - Trunk\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eFictional violence? Yes\u003cbr\u003eImaginary sex? Yes\u003cbr\u003eWords your mother won't like? Absolutely\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46399838257303,"sku":"9798223152934","price":984.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798223152934.webp?v=1769050142","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/hearts-and-minds-9798223152934","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}