“Loaded with
plenty of whiskey-tango-foxtrot moments
,
War Under the Mango Tree
is a
thoroughly entertaining lampoon of the US military machine
via a fictionalized mission in an equally fictional Central African country... Not since Catch 22 has a novel this
brilliant
come along.
Five cheeky stars!
” —
David Edlund, USA Today bestselling author of “Guarding Savage”
“. . . a
brilliant satire
of the hypocrisy, bureaucracy, banality, and ineptitude of the military. . .
scathingly funn
y and often feels absurd—yet other times, all too real.” —
David Aretha, editor
of multiple award-winning military books
At a remote military camp in Africa a small detachment of American soldiers and their local allies wage a high-tech manhunt to neutralize the notorious warlord Daniel Odoki and defeat his rebel army. As the quixotic campaign unfolds, a cast of glory seeking generals, rapacious mercenaries and corrupt government officials are determined to finish off Odoki, though each for different reasons. Meanwhile, a hapless band of compatriots, pawns in a mysterious shadow war, race to discover the truth about Odoki before it’s too late.
In the tradition of writers such as Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut and Evelyn Waugh
exposes the absurdities of modern warfare as it intersects with media culture, technology, politics and big business. The result is
a darkly painted satire of war, money and corruption on the far flung reaches of Pax Americana
.