The First Stone Carsten Jensen by Carsten Jensen 9781542044394, 9781542044387, 1542044391, 1542044383 instant download after payment.

Publisher description: "Dispatched to fight the Taliban as part of the NATO forces, the soldiers of the Third Platoon arrive in a desert hell intent on testing their courage and endurance. Among them are the charismatic platoon leader Schrøder, a former games designer fascinated by the imaginative potential of war; Colonel Steffensen, whose negotiating tactics will have deadly consequences; Sidekick, the LifeLogger whose online "war memorial" will blur into horror; and the hardened but vulnerable Hannah, who must bury her womanhood - or sacrifice her soul. Confronted by a betrayal that no military training could prepare them for, the soldiers must embark on a desperate mission to track down an enemy whose methods are as murderous as they are unfathomable. As the hunters become the hunted, the mission turns into a depraved, hallucinatory voyage into an Afghanistan they never knew existed. With the Third Platoon's most fundamental notions of good and evil called into question, survival becomes their only mission. "

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST STONE

“A tour de force, composed of the stuff war classics are made of.”

—Berlingske

“Gripping, and its horror takes hold of the reader, but by the end there is no avoiding taking a stand . . . difficult to leave behind.”

—Jyllands-Posten

“Sets a new standard for political thrillers. A masterpiece.”

—Deutschlandfunk Kultur

“The connections between the intimate and the political, between the personal and the sweeping narrative, are evoked with a force and precision reminiscent of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate.”

—Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire

“Carsten Jensen demonstrates what a brilliant storyteller he is.”

—Dagens Nyheter