Innocent Blood - by Christopher Dickey (Paperback)

About the Book

A fast-paced, shocking novel which portrays the profound alienation and despair that feed a terrorist's mind and corrupt his soul. Amidst the horrors of war-torn Bosnia, a young G.I. thinks that he has finally discovered a meaningful cause and embarks on his destiny as a holy warrior.

Book Synopsis

He is the perfect terrorist.

He's an all-American boy.

Kurt Kurtovic is someone you might know -- and ought to fear.

Kurt was a U.S. Army Ranger. Born and raised in Kansas, he was trained to kill for -- what? Once he might have said "for God and country." Kurt searches in the former Yugoslavia, the land of his parents, for a place, for faith, for a cause. In the midst of the horrors in Bosnia, Kurt is recruited to fight by a holy warrior, a terrorist Iago, who plays on all of Kurt's doubts and fears: America is the evil behind the horror, but Kurt can change it. He can take the war home. He can penetrate to the heart of the U.S. elite. He can teach his country a lesson so horrible it will never forget.

In this riveting story of war, love, and deception, Christopher Dickey takes us to the white-hot core of the terrorist mind. Innocent Blood is as real as today's headlines -- and tomorrow's.

Review Quotes

Joan Didion

Powerful, lethal, downright breathtaking in its range, "Innocent Blood"is the best novel I can imagine about America right now -- and about the cost of forgetting how we got here.

Pat Conroy

The book moves so fast it feels like it was written with quicksilver and the blood of greyhounds. A splendid achievement.

Joan Didion Powerful, lethal, downright breathtaking in its range, "Innocent Blood"is the best novel I can imagine about America right now -- and about the cost of forgetting how we got here.

About the Author

Christopher Dickey, Newsweek's award-winning Paris bureau chief and Middle East editor, reports regularly from Baghdad, Cairo, and Jerusalem, and writes the weekly "Shadowland" column -- an inside look at the world of spies and soldiers, guerrillas and suicide bombers -- for Newsweek Online. He is the author of Summer of Deliverance, Expats, With the Contras, and the novel Innocent Blood. He lives in Paris.