NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
One of the
New York Times
10 Best Books of the Year
"The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's.” —
Jonathan Franzen
Named A Best Book of the Year by
Time
,
The Washington Post
The Boston Globe
Chicago
Tribune
San Francisco
Chronicle
Salon
Slate
, The National Book Critics Circle,
The Christian Science Monitor. . .
Tree of Smoke
is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA—engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in
The New York Times
is "bound to become one of the classic works of literature produced by that tragic and uncannily familiar war."