Bibliograph

Shake the devil off, a true story of the murder that rocked New Orleans, Ethan Brown

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Shake the devil off, a true story of the murder that rocked New Orleans, Ethan Brown

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Shake the devil off

Oclc number

299703581

Responsibility statement

Ethan Brown

Sub title

a true story of the murder that rocked New Orleans

Summary

NYC journalist Ethan Brown investigates the tragic end of Zackery Bowen, a young charismatic soldier from New Orleans, in this moving and mesmerizing account of the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and no-safety-net America. Among the newsworthy elements in the book is Brown's discovery that this tragedy--like so many others--could have been avoided if the military had simply not failed this soldier

Table Of Contents

Santa Maria -- Kosovo -- Giessen -- Baghdad -- Abu Ghraib -- Ramadan -- Homecoming -- New Orleans -- Holding out -- The suicide king -- The wake -- Murder city -- Auburn, Columbus -- Ourselves alone -- Epilogue: Still here

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