Spoils
(Sound Disc)

Compact discs.

Unabridged.

Read by Nicol Zanzarella, Armando Durán, and Andrew Eiden.

Brian Van Reet transports listeners to Fallujah during the Iraq War, where he depicts a few short weeks in the lives of three people involved in the war in drastically different ways. Cassandra, an American soldier, is captured from her artillery unit during a firefight and forced to endure a brutal captivity as a POW. Abu al-Hool is a fierce mujahideen, a veteran of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Chechnya, whose power is being eroded by the next wave of super-radicalized jihadists, those brutal enough to behead their prisoners and circulate the video to the world. Finally, there is Sleed, a young soldier haunted by the knowledge that he was searching one of Saddam₂s palaces for a gold-toilet-seat souvenir as his fellow soldiers were ambushed.