The Good Lieutenant

'A wild Humvee ride of a novel that embeds us so deeply and so sympathetically in its beautifully realized characters - a young woman lieutenant and her platoon of male soldiers - that we can scarcely draw breath until their journey comes to its harrowing conclusion. Whitney Terrell has written a deeply moving work of fiction to set beside Phil Klay's Redeployment and Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds, with a singularity of vision uniquely its own.' Joyce Carol Oates 'The Good Lieutenant has the grand complexity of war embedded in its bones. It makes ingenious, compelling art out of those complexities. For that reason alone, its considerable graces are saving ones.' Richard Ford 'A stirring performance grounded in the hard realities of combat. The human beauty here is of the brutal variety - complex, dark, and impossible to forget . . . This novel should be read by all.' Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead 'A terrific exploration of courage, leadership, and loss . . . Terrell captures the humanity and the absurdity of the conflict in a way that feels both specific to the Iraq conflict and also unnervingly timeless. A stunning and heartbreaking testament to Terrell's genius and the nature of modern war.' Gillian Flynn